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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words geranium, squall, skull, and levitate.

 

Spring Housecleaning
 
I am sorting through a cupboard of skeletons:
the giving flesh I used to touch has fallen away  
 
Penelope Scambly Schott

 

He Brings Flowers
 
I know about the sun's weighty
gifts, how tulips close each evening like a prayer's palm  
 
Eliabeth Bruno

 

Two Poems
 
spells
clatter from
eve's new mouth  
 
Michaela A. Gabriel

 

Adam
 
I once watched a peach
fall and crack into
a beautiful wet smile  
 
Janie Hofmann

 

Nocturne
 
Cloud—
Incandescent fruit  
 
Aditya Ananth

 

Today
 
I have heard it softer than the song of a single flycatcher
When languid fish hang in the shaded places under rocks
And the land gives up its cache of water in sips  
 
Cy Dillon

 

Anthropology in the Waking Night
 
Here the air and the cheeses are famous,
the beach chairs are blue,
the shutters are pastel  
 
Oliver Rice

 

Fractures
 
The incident happens so suddenly
it almost doesn’t
happen.  
 
Joseph Kerschbaum

 

To the Bag Lady of Yonge Street
 
Policemen on horseback feel their animals shiver
And fear to know why.  
 
Bojan Pavlovic

 

Singing Lessons
 
That's when, my neighbors say, she sliced off
Her ears bit by bit, leaving them at the apartment door.  
 
Jesslyn Roebuck

 

Throwing Duality
 
I have things to tell you
that will not wait  
 
Michelle Beth Cronk

 

Childhood's Recurring Dream
 
You wear power lightly, a sheathe of light
like a leaf touching time.  
 
Carolyn Srygley-Moore

 

Inclement
 
The snow is soft and merciless. The neighborhood
was taken over, while we slept, in nauseated fits.  
 
J. Elyse Kihlstrom

 

Named
 
In that city, they name
houses, they actually do.  
 
Anuradha Vijayakrishnan

 

Magic
 
The man on stage rolled a quarter
across his knuckles, silver
climbing over skin  
 
Nicholas Ripatrazone