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Poems containing the words gnaw, let, house, and same.
A vicious
wind heaved those chairs and tables
to the heavens
Charlie Brice
The marigold leavens
like a pumped-up dough, happiness
rippling its brilliant yellows
Rituparna Sahoo
Ode to the Basket That Holds Odd Things
Sometimes I empty
you, lay out tokens, deposited
as a gypsy might a fortune deck
Judy Kaber
"It's spring,"
I offer, and gesture toward the tree stirring
between what it has lost and what will show.
Pete Mackey
In a Dream My Mother Knocks at the Door
the mother of my adolescence, of
Sisterhood is Powerful
and Our Bodies Ourselves
Erica Goss
What You Are and What Is Yours
(Spotlight Runner-Up!)
The five-month winter
will be to him as the monsoon
was to his father's father.
Haresh Bhojwani
