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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words middle, never, coerce, and skull.

 

Two Translations
 
I remember nothing:
he was wild as a demon,
and then wistful like an angel.
 
Jascha Kessler

 

Three Poems
 
Hear me limp along in my protestations
now and you wouldn't know my miles in the sun
 
Kathleen Kirk

 

March in Rome
 
April's not delicate, a darker form
Lies back of the lilies, even Easter week.
 
Peter Bridges

 

Declaring Victory
 
Once I took a photo of a
sunflower on the bank, not knowing
of a field of them just downstream.
 
Lucas Jacob

 

Two Poems
 
I witnessed the leaves
turn holy with beetles and caterpillars set up tents
for the summer.
 
Jude Goodwin

 

Two Poems
 
he knew I was just a kid,
but he couldn't help but hate
everything about me.
 
David Mathews