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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words mint, binoculars, stereo, and prince.
Includes a special invitation for the next issue.

 

Two Poems
 
Armadillos, suicidal, leaping up to meet their demise
Like born-againers whose women are barred
From attending college.  
 
Lisa Lewis

 

Two Poems
 
Pitiful, problematic, anachronistic man.
Papaya King junkie alone in a barren
white Manhattan kitchen man.  
 
Kate Sontag

 

Two Poems
 
Those days she tried
to grow impatiens there before she knew
which ones could take the heat,
which ones would wither in the hot sun.  
 
Paula Sergi

 

Two Poems
 
You could live 53 lifetimes
in a better place than Baraboo,
as even Baraboo has to admit  
 
David Graham

 

Two Towns in Provence
 
This is the fantasy
of the tranquil man, the man who never talks
for pleasure, every word a coin.  
 
Kristin Kovacic

 

Los Lunas
 
Grandma was tired
of the paper cup world, living her life fifty milligrams
at a time. So she ran, on legs we all thought were papier mache.  
 
Nathan Fink

 

Towels sour
 
She lies wide awake
counting clock chimes—
each a regret, a spot
that blisters in her head  
 
Jenna Rindo

 

Dear...
 
I sat on my porch and ate fat
hamburgers and watched old
El Caminos roll by...  
 
Jeff Scott

 

Anne Hathaway's Further Concerns
 
Judith boiled turnip for our supper
and baked two loaves of black bread.
Going into winter, we are careful
to eat nothing but what we can trade or make.  
 
Michelle Cameron

 

Snake-making
 
Ramses the Great's
wife, bound to obedience
like a mummy to eternity, once spit
in his face when he
bent for a kiss.  
 
Kenneth Rosen

 

Us
 
We were in our own bodies
(that car that will carry us)
and you were in my body
(that care that will remove us)  
 
Jessy Randall

 

st. david's bones
 
a woolen cap atop a chestnut hill
the gentle green, the mustard sill
dune and wind below a cotton ridge
along tea-bag rails on a wooden bridge  
 
christopher watkins