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In an ongoing series, the editors, former contributors, and readers of Eclectica have been invited to write a poem containing four pre-chosen words. The words for this issue are reach, mind, shade, and back.
If you would like to participate in the next special poetry assignment, the new words are funny, half, player, and way.
(These are excerpts—click on the title to view the whole piece!)
on a white plate,
halved and glistening,
one obscene scarlet-
centered peach
Miriam Kotzin
dreaming—that nocturnal reach into other
worlds, imaginary states, the shadowed wilderness of her mind
Adrienne Pilon
the world reduced to a half-inch of tennis shoe miscalculation,
to a fierce whoosh through your so thin gray hair
Kimm Brockett Stammen
hair-ties were
used to cut the umbilical cord
baby's pulse monitored
using a fit-bit
Jayanthi Rangan
every year he strung up big colorful Christmas lights we loved
a simple home, a calmness, safeness, ease
Kelli Weldon
Stay long enough
to watch the puddles ice over
Tom Nakasako
The evolution
of frogs into kisses being caught at the pond
was an unstudied phenomenon
Kelly Burdick
