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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words mania, flux, ceremony, and borrow.

 

The Muses In Exile
 
In cottage, church and villages
they sang and so, in time did their sons
and theirs, are singing still.
 
Marjorie Mir

 

Punch Line
 
I was the woman with wings you passed
without a glance this morning.
 
Linda Baldwin Avila

 

Two Poems
 
The half-circle peppers, the parsnips,
even the red, imploded tomato-faces were glad for escape.
 
B.L. Gentry

 

Two Poems
 
pines unfastened their roots, climbed
the current until they caught
against a house, and a house, and a church
 
Michele Harris

 

Three Poems
 
thirst paws its frozen dish,
a heartbreak of no snow
 
Richard-Yves Sitoski

 

Having Forgotten My Notebook
 
Yet here's an earthworm,
hauling the pale rucksack
of itself across a bare patch
 
David Oestreich

 

Tree
 
A pillar of shadow rises
Deep from the ground       A few robins &
A single sparrow flutter circle
 
John J. McKernan

 

The Call
 
the cradle
would not retake the phone
one too big the other too small
 
Alan Meyrowitz

 

Everything that Rises Must Diverge
 
Dinner was at six: boxed Mac & Cheese.
No one bothered to spruce it up with lobster.
 
James Valvis

 

Arena
 
Clio, muse of history, will collaborate with anyone.
Urania, muse of astronomy, is uniquely a loner.
 
Oliver Rice

 

The Miner
 
All canaries are like this:
A matter of science, lung volume,
Sensitivity.
 
Ken Poyner

 

Poem Beginning with a Line from C. K. Williams
 
I halve the all I know
and then halve it again
 
Paula Marafino Bernett