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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words long, west, moon, and news.

 

Working from Home During a Storm
 
soon we're outside—me wrapped
around you on a sled, Harley-style,
flying down a crystal slope
 
Mary Beth Hines

 

Whiskey Neat
 
What exactly conspired
to pinch into place
this recipe for rescue
 
Shoshauna Shy

 

Three Cows Staring at a Dead Coyote
 
Ghosts rise through the soil in the fields,
rise through the ceilings of this house,
rise through our bed and rise through you
 
John Leonard

 

Said to a Drowned Daddy Longlegs
 
I peered long and close, as I should've
before causing closeted rain.
 
Phoebe Marrall

 

In My Arms
(Spotlight Runner-Up!)
 
I was fascinated to observe
his anatomical processes, the condyles,
the feathery clouds of gray body matter
 
Jayne Marek

 

It Is Whatever Myth
 
Each landmark disappears
with a Cheshire Kitty smile.
Trails go nowhere awhile.
 
Russell Rowland