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Poems containing the words velvet, carnival, window, and pregnant.
There are ways to die
that are unbloody.
Julie Nondorf
Dust dancing on echoes,
dry coughs, wordless prayers
that crumble like clay
John E. Eddy
Sleeping between these white sheets,
during a visit from my dead father
I see his strangely young face
with slicked black hair.
John Hanson
(haiku)
Scott Thouard
he walks to the fridge,
searching for the milk to splash on the small
of her back, the sheets are milky wet
Allison Daniel
With herbal skill, she charmed him:
sewed forget-me-nots into his pillow,
infused his stew with bloodroot
to encourage deeper ties
Glenda Cooper
my only voice, the gravedigger's song,
atavistic rhythms of
cold steel against dirt,
sending prayers up
Oren Shafir
tattooed by leghold teeth,
pelt matted with the muck of swum rivers,
she bench presses
Mitchell Metz
hair,
soft and blond
as sun-bleached tassels
on summer corn
Allen Itz
Looking through a telescope
of my own invention,
I struggled to plot
your precise orbital periods
J.T. Chan
