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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words heirloom, forbid, seven, and boundary.

 

How to Oil an Indian Man's Hair
 
Begin at your scalp,
rub it in.
 
Jessica Tyner

 

This Table
 
My wish for it would be
that it might find another home,
bear the weight of someone's cat
 
Marjorie Mir

 

Two Poems
 
body falls
like a brick slipped
from a mason's hand
 
William Fargason

 

Three Poems
 
The children will find them
one bright day,
when you no longer own your fear.
 
Tim Hawkins

 

Two Poems
 
A fugitive, I've grown wings, grown
into anonymity, become unknown.
 
Antonia Clark

 

Baram 1
 
This cold poverty
Underlying the urban
Is nature
 
Finn Harvor

 

Three Poems
 
teeth like party hats and wizard hats and head wraps,
the kinds of shapes you'd find
in a storm-racked ocean
 
Lauren Henley

 

Two Poems
 
It's been so long
since we've had a picnic
 
Arjun Rajendran

 

Talking to the Dead
 
The scuttling in the attic does
not sound animal
 
Nicole Borg