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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words mirror, demand, rain, and settle.

 

Two Poems
 
I wish I had more time to enjoy
the unfinished product, frame
naked, the act of building displayed
 
Jeff Burt

 

Semiosis
 
The valiant serpent stabbed with poisonous
fangs at the foe and hung from his haunch
twisting around his flaming brush
 
Will Reger

 

Autonomic System
 
On the farthest nervous paths
through every station on the stem
hot homunculi rumba through this coma.
 
Jesse Minkert

 

Poem for Katie, Queen of Ohio #95
 
I believe in Ohio.
I believe in you.
 
Darren Demaree

 

The Betrayal
 
As a teenager in Chicago, I denied any knowledge
of collard greens, black-eyed peas, or red-eyed gravy.
 
Nancy LaFever

 

Abandoned School Bus Blues
 
The trees stand around like her grown children,
on a corner, waiting to be picked up
for a job, any job
 
Bob Bradshaw

 

Icarus as Poet
 
If only his flight had been
an imagined one
 
Marjorie Mir