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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words hemisphere, indignant, thistle, and wipe.

 

Caring for Rabbits
 
Loving them
doesn't mean they'll love you back
so keep your boyfriend.  
 
Aleah Sato

 

In China
 
My daughter is eleven.
She wears a "training" bra.
What is she training for?  
 
Bob Bradshaw

 

Rituals
 
Every morning, she stared at the
back of his freshly shorn neck
and imagined the velvet nap of it,
rubbed in the wrong direction.  
 
Terri Light

 

Sierra Vista, AZ
 
we cling like the Tohono O’odom
to a bare neck of the land,
sleep in the crook of its arm  
 
David Cazden

 

900 Miles
 
it is fashionable among college hippies
to dress themselves in pressed overalls
and pile themselves into smoky vans  
 
Gary Charles Wilkens

 

Three Poems
 
Nothing good can come
From gray Thursdays.  
 
Darin Zimpel

 

On the Prospect of a New Lover
 
He asks me out, his stutter like a soft peach sluicing
my chin with juice. I am easy when it comes to younger men.  
 
Arlene Ang

 

Beating Down the Road
 
Hot coffee kept me right and I drove on
With my eyes burning and the lights thinning out
And nothing was on the road but me looking for you.  
 
Ray Sikes

 

Hide and Go Seek
 
At the far end of the alley,
a fire burns in a metal barrel.
Mary reaches into the flames.  
 
Jared Carter

 

Driftwood
 
I love that hour
that comes every once
in a while  
 
Bradley Earle Hoge