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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words chameleon, liquid, cupboard, and gutter.

 

Dear Kristen,
 
I want to assure you that this is truly what it is, a poem.
 
Michael VanCalbergh

 

Three Poems
 
I want juice with my morning tea, I want quiet
ripening like the moon in its seed pod
 
George Moore

 

Last Words
 
A simile may be as indifferent as plants or the seasons
 
Cy Dillon

 

Three Poems
 
There's a time between this happening and the
rest of the town rousing itself awake,
when I arrive with pole and creel and sandworms.
 
John Grey

 

Adam
 
A naked man stood at the end of a field
with only the frail hairs on his ears for decoration.
 
Zoë Gabriel

 

Bruce, an Apprentice Stagehand, His Esthetics
 
Notice his apparent lack of presumption.
Of presentation.
 
Oliver Rice

 

I am not a doctor but maybe
 
Another doctor wants to know why I'm scared to go to sleep.
She wants to know what I can do to help myself.
 
Gregory Sherl

 

Morning in Shantiniketan
 
Monkeys thump and bang
 
Michael Chacko Daniels

 

Two Poems
 
creeping by the witchy brooms,
the neighbor's cat is here again
 
Mary Meriam

 

Stretch
 
Still, there may be a ripeness,
a harvest waiting, plump and full,
rows you lift high your legs for
 
Jan Seale