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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words ground, triangle, vision, and knit.

Winter, Two Weeks
 
my mutt, Suttree, frees
the bird's blood-red body at my feet
 

Matt Morgan
 

Two Poems
 
playing it is like riding your first bicycle uphill
on a warm day full of white-flowering trees
 

Christine Potter
 

Crows in Wind
 
Instead you accrue the earthbound aches
of a woman in the midst of treatment
or aging
 

Sharon F. McDermott
 

Family Road Trip
 
we breeze past a little town
that sprouted in the morning
shadow of a mountain
 

Stephanie L. Harper
 

Looking out on the Kerala Floods, 2018: Tanka
 
a thousand lights
whirl in the pooling waters
of the rose bed
 

Eric Steere
 

suit and bone (Spotlight Runner Up!)
 
in the Nehru suit you wore for
your son's wedding
your hands clasped by a stranger
 

Mala Rai
 

Chestnuts
 
Melancholy becomes resignation
like the hollow left
when the hummingbirds have flown.
 

John Ziegler
 

What Any River Would Do
 
Maybe the river's current coerced the
hot throb of his breath from your ear
 

Kami Westhoff
 

The Calm
 
Laughter for us was a spiraling out of control,
a momentous shift in the Earth's gravitational pull
 

Tim Hawkins
 

Insomnia
 
His vigilance as relentless
as a mother tending her child, sharp as
a beam of sunlight
 

Virginia Folger
 

Pigeon Flying
 
This, here, is the winter—binding skin to
the current coming in.
 

Priyam Goswami Choudhury