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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words brew, indigo, paper, and cruise.

 

Two Poems
 
a sound on the earth
like loud applause,
celebrating the end
 
D.S. Maolalai

 

Body Image Issues of a Human Centipede
 
A cold spot left—
the shape of your palm
the shape of our continent
 
Morgan Eklund

 

One-Way, Out and Only
 
I think of all the braided girls and ponytailed women who vanished,
the dads in new tennis shoes ill fit for woodruff trails
 
Jeff Burt

 

Book of Numbers
 
Your voice untangled the air as it fell
and mulled the water
I continue to tend it daily
 
Rose Fairfield

 

An Arab in Harlem, Learning
 
I'm busy mesmerizing over thick braids, a plaid jacket, ankara
headwrap, sequin hoops, man in cane.
 
Nur Turkmani

 

Drosophilia (to Drosophila melanogaster)
 
He's saving up—gnats and little crawly things—
For a buxom wench ripe with spider eggs.
 
Thomas J. Hubschman

 

Two Poems
 
And it is large. And it grows larger—
a force determined
washing over the world.
 
Patrice Claeys