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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words sliver, sidewalk, vanish, and portent.

 

Three Poems
 
Evening poems are like
blind windows of empty houses
where no-one indifferently turns on a light
 
Lakshmi Arya Thathachar

 

Two Poems (Spotlight Runner-Up!)
 
Every year late in January
the sun picks a day
to stroke her gold-strung lyre
 
Nancy Jentsch

 

Two Poems
 
He is a boy stuffed into history
Remembered if only for that harmed face
often.
 
Robert Hilles

 

What Living Is
 
the sea an unlapping
Tongue ungreening
 
R. W. Jagodnik

 

Squirrel
 
The faces in the history book
      look haunted
 
Jean-Luc Fontaine

 

Near Jack's Cabin
 
I want to coax them to my fire
before the wind tonight and snow
 
Sarah Russell

 

Two Poems
 
The animals run to the Karun
They leap into the river's mud
Treading that corpulent fat to the sea
 
Tom Laichas

 

Funeral Season
 
Ozark patriarchs simmer mossbergs
and aluminum soup, these parts.
 
Henry Goldkamp

 

Triangles
 
We three
recite
the rigid
law of squares
 
Steven Deutsch

 

Two Poems
 
I have resigned from
my reflection. Not near as it once was, well-earned
damage on display.
 
Greta Bolger

 

The Sheets
 
The sheets of years hang on a line
in my yard and flap in the wind.
 
Chuck Kramer

 

Two Poems
 
I have met two beloved ghosts
in my life
 
Sharon Fagan McDermott

 

Two Poems
 
A troupe of one, he gave tender life
to cloth and reshaped remnants
 
Marjorie Mir

 

The Beachgoer
 
The fury
of the ocean spends eternity arriving,
hiccuping back forever.
 
Joel Fry

 

Sampler
 
I am not the girl
my mother insists pronounce
tomato, tomahto
 
Lisa McMonagle

 

Two Poems
 
I'm shaken, even years later,
by how quickly we took a life.
 
Bob Bradshaw