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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words name, domestic, nothing, and summon.

 

Three Poems (Spotlight Runner-Up!)
 
Route 82, where we have come
to rest for one night among slopes made
by a god in love with hips and thighs.
 
Margaret Holley

 

Spring Dwindle
 
I spit honey and blood, I am filled with a strange vibration.
My limbs dance wildly without restraint.
 
Margaret Wack

 

Two Poems
 
Egg white clouds drift the clear blue sky,
while you and I drag kites through the cold winter's air
 
Don G. Morgan

 

(excerpt from a love letter) 2/15/2015
 
there was something important that I meant to write down,
some perfect words that were like an incantation for beauty
 
Stephanie Erdman

 

Buzz
 
I could hear her thinking,
they'll be grown before you know it,
Michael, it all happens so fast.
 
Michael Creighton

 

Two Poems
 
After slogs through rain and sweat, today is better than a peanut butter cup
 
Kenneth Pobo

 

Blackheads Exist
 
>Like any other imperfection, it has a circumference
 
Divya Rajan

 

Ripple
 
She can thank
dehydration,
as usual.
 
David Kunkel

 

Two Poems
 
I see you outside my window like a shout
heard from a moving train
 
Ankush Banerjee

 

Two Poems
 
The river is a filament of silk,
mountains cryptic scrawls,
oceans no more than one ice crystal
 
Marjorie Mir