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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words delve, audible, demand, and undone.

 

Two Poems
 
Even the ant, its shred
of dry leaf held aloft,
does not escape notice.
 
Jared Carter

 

Two Poems
 
Shirt of sky opens.
Hair of stars sprout.
 
Siddhartha Bose

 

Alive
 
the more intense life is
the more transparent
 
Don Thompson

 

Mill Town
 
Early Sunday morning
someone in a three-
decker shoots up
 
Lori Lamothe

 

Two Merthyr Poems
 
Mangy things, the ponies, hips jutting like
under the skin they had coat hangers,
ears flat and teeth ready to nip.
 
Vanessa Gebbie

 

farmer's song
 
the plastic australian flags,
the light eluded chandeliers,
the half bandaged face
 
Cecily Niumeitolu

 

Walled
 
People come to see me
in ones and twos.
 
Barbara De Franceschi

 

My Son Wyatt Leaves Home
 
Darwin and Lyell and Browning
will replace The Ramones and The Misfits
who room with you now.
 
Bob Bradshaw