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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words maze, parade, loom, and recognize.

 

Three Poems (Spotlight Runner-Up!)
 
The man I stayed married to said
it took years before he could finally see my
face. I was old five minutes after that.
 
Christine Potter

 

Three Poems
 
It is clear
that I possess no heart, no internal organs. My spine
is lattice, my skin, fabricated from jute.
 
Robert Okaji

 

Two Blocks
 
we could
have been little allies, unloosening
the lonely that gripped childhood
 
Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

 

A Brief History of December
 
This is the body at odds with its surroundings.
 
Glen Armstrong

 

Elegy for Christina
 
Some days, grief keeps me looking inward,
even when I hear the cranes' migration
 
Michele Leavitt

 

Green Mountain Falls
 
Uniformed like a pint size Lou Gehrig,
he will have long forgotten them
by the time he rounds third base
 
D. G. Geis

 

Two Poems
 
He wants to know what every button does.
I don't know what every button does.
 
Jessy Randall

 

Two Poems
 
I thought he was powerful because he controlled the elements.
Water passed through his hands and turned into jewels.
 
Connie Wasem Scott

 

Still LIves
 
Easters, outings, on a backyard swing
we are trapped, waiting escape.
 
Marjorie Mir

 

Thanksgiving
 
the only thing you ever find is your own blood coursing through you: a warm and anxious life
 
Karen Windus

 

All Things Are Possible For One Who Believes
 
It shed violence it perfected before
the creation of our laws. It did pass. Power
came back on. Debris was soon removed.
 
David Mathews