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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words hoax, mosaic, courteous, and thirst.

 

Two Poems
 
In the gorge below
Kingfishers chatter against unseen boundaries  
 
Cy Dillon

 

black birds in the tree house saloons
 
the trees' red berries begin
fermenting like free fat
grapes and homemade wine  
 
Stanley M. Noah

 

Two Poems
 
I recall another
time-slipped scrap of twitchy darkness
madly orbiting late one October  
 
Adam Elgar

 

Two Poems
 
My mother was once the most beautiful woman in town.  
 
Grzegorz Wroblewski

 

Nomenclature
 
My mother's name is Hester,
as was her mother's,
and her mother's mother's.  
 
LouAnn Shepard Muhm

 

Two Poems
 
It made me dizzy, trying
to keep straight what flowed into what
and where, which part was named river  
 
Ellen Kombiyil

 

Allure
 
I can be venomous when taken
for a prostitute.  
 
Arlene Ang