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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words carnival, stucco, mustache, essential.

 

Autobiography
 
The tattoo artist approves
when my friend does not etch
her husband's name indelibly into her skin.  
 
Abigail Jones

 

Two Poems
 
like fireflies and lightning
we're never quite as whole as we remember  
 
Christopher Watkins

 

A Different Approach
 
I whisper things to Saint Anthony
when no one else is looking.  
 
Bea Cedillo

 

The Houses in Queens
 
The houses in Queens,
blurring, speed by,
late for departure
or just now arrived  
 
Andrew Day

 

Migraine
 
Rudderless, I float
from this mooring,
this casket of Vesuvian heat  
 
Marina Lee Sable

 

Mona Lita
 
When her bones became blades, she hit the walls,
almost causing an earthquake inside her.  
 
Olga Grun

 

Ave
 
I had a vision
of who I might have been
had I not declared myself
one of my Church's queers  
 
Li Min Hua

 

Wedgwood
 
How do you like the fine china now?  
 
Megan Buckley

 

Choosing Exits
 
But you can never ignore friction. Friction
would be the wind slapping your face all
the way down.  
 
Richard Fein

 

The Loss
 
I saw you in every baby creature
And cried for two years.
Now I'm tired.  
 
Karen Bramblett