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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words feather, collection, widow, and maple.

 

Two Poems
 
Like holding a telescope to the bones—
the cat's purr, murmuring a dirge for hours.
 
Sarah J. Sloat

 

Pieces
 
The stars seated in the dark
pass our lives across the table
 
Jami Macarty

 

Two Poems
 
I don't believe in being pretty anymore,
or know why I watch you read in bed.
 
Stephanie Anderson

 

Van Gogh in Love
 
I knocked as loudly
as a banging shutter.
Kee's father opened the door
and filled its frame.
 
Bob Bradshaw

 

Two Poems
 
The trees support
each other with
thick blankets of air.
 
Meg Pokrass

 

Two Poems
 
Lipstick on filters in the ashtray;
lipstick cinching the corners of a powdered, fallen face.
 
Sarah Yost

 

1978 Camaro, Yellow
 
I lost myself today...
 
Chris Middleman

 

Two Poems
 
"Oh, it's you. I dialed the wrong number."
You always feel a little let down
when someone says that to you.
 
Michael Estabrook

 

Two Poems
 
He shipped at least three cubic feet of seashells in a box
that had originally contained machine-gun ammunition.
 
Jared Carter

 

catching fire
 
strike poems together like
two flints. sparks will erupt.
 
Richard Lighthouse