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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words gallery, siren, ribbon, and uniform.

 

Three Poems
 
The laughing daughter runs around
my lattice spine, scattering joy like so
many seeds
 
Robert Okaji

 

Two Poems
 
I mean, I never stop thinking,
mind like a daylong blaring waiting room TV
 
Michael Milburn

 

Two Poems
 
the air hangs over indolent, flowering grass
& mosses don an orange hue, so i get the gist
of your twilight distractions
 
David Jalajel

 

Anna Pavlova
 
Feathers in the air. White feathers
in the choreographer's mouth.
 
Richard Weaver

 

Three Poems
 
It might be a trick from the moon's
Library of incantations
 
Seth Jani

 

Visiting Day
 
Today, it's just the two of us—
as gangly and awkward
as the children we once were
 
Steven Deutsch

 

Once Upon a Time
 
We made potions from crab grass
and dirt, smashed jacaranda
petals for seasoning.
 
Ruth Kogen Goodwin

 

Two Poems
 
the smell of the sun in clothes
brought in in armfuls before the night seeps through them
is the smell of home
 
Lakshmi Arya Thathachar

 

Love Is a Burnin' Thing
 
You won't even let my apology
settle like grit beneath
your fingernails
 
Maddie Woda

 

Sundays
 
What's more elusive, confidence or faith?
Abandon one for the other, then
do the math.
 
Billy McEntee

 

Anxious in AZ
 
waiting for my careless symbolic tower to grow
rebirth reconstructed
recollecting youth's dumb green fields
 
Steve Bogdaniec

 

Watching The Starlings
 
This bird chatter
makes silence the way silence
makes a distant car horn.
 
Joel Fry

 

Disorder Enters Grade 4B
 
How easily, just here, a gesture,
a word could reshape memory
and did not.
 
Marjorie Mir

 

August Lost
 
Why can't desire see the end
and be done with it
 
Deborah Allbritain

 

Two Poems
 
Even today, as an adult, I fear
being diminished in your eyes.
 
Bob Bradshaw