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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words afternoon, ordinary, obscure, and spoil.

 

Three Poems (Spotlight Runner Up!)
 
this day is thick
smear and trudge,
sky spit and
ebb
 
Cassandra Yarnall

 

Two Poems
 
Many worlds with better suns
however fail to prosper.
 
Jesse Minkert

 

Two Poems
 
I turned my heart into the deep
while I was in the drink,
seaweed drifting overhead
 
Rachel Dacus

 

The Science of Infatuation
 
Something of you still breathes
through everything I do
 
Jen Davis

 

Looking Around
 
The grasses borrow my walking
for their sticky seeds
 
Michael Penny

 

The Way We Are Now
 
My neighbor, Mike,
will build a fence this spring.
 
Steven Deutsch

 

Shadows and Shades
 
High in the tree of knowledge
my brother clutches at a
brittle branch
 
Chuck Kramer

 

Snow Falling
 
I try not to disappoint those
Who define my world.
 
Linda Baldanzi

 

Two Poems
 
That bounty, long-since gone,
has left the words intact,
reminding me how poems begin
 
Marjorie Mir

 

Poisonous Venom
 
I wanted to use a word
I've never before written down
 
Penelope Scambly Schott

 

Significance
 
Not even a snail crosses the path of my suffering.
 
Joel Fry

 

Doug's Boots
 
I want to stand
in this small space forever.
 
Bob Bradshaw