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Poems containing the words sear, ribald, albino, and freakout.
Two Poems
(Spotlight Runner-Up!)
My cousin and I discover the sausages
in the far back of a kitchen cabinet
my aunt's secret pleasure, something she eats
when she isn't starving herself
Virginia Watts
No need for white pebbles
to leave in my wake—
I am not coming home.
David Sahner
Come here, my demure,
hoofed ruminant,
you like fingerprints
Ravi Shankar
Think of it as experimental opera
Maryann Corbett
At seven I was a military brat
shrunk to the size of a seed without knowing
its future structure or how it might grow.
Ryan Clark
its patina flames like music
alive in the mind
Donna Hilbert
We played strip poker after school,
two Catholic girls, two shy Lutheran boys
Jerry Krajnak
But you understood
that when there's a bottleneck, a choke point,
everything explodes to infinity.
Jim Stewart
The child who goes
by the nickname Bug
decides to raise snails
because they're iridescent
Penelope Moffet
I didn't see you in the luminescence
or bright reflection of daylight,
not wanting to stop my own folding, packing,
taping shut of intimate things.
Alan Perry
It is
time bent backwards
Larina Warnock
If Marilyn Monroe Had Lived Today and Used 23andMe
Were these things traits, or a very special hell, reserved just for her?
Impossible to tell, really
Gillian Thomas
I can't forget
how he told us
tarantulas can't close their eyes
because they have no lids.
Connie Post
Ron Stoppable's naked mole rat,
his pocket pet for the ages,
sent you into tunnels
of laughter
Marybeth Rua-Larsen
I believe there is a dead body in the back seat.
As I mow, edge, and trim I look over my shoulder.
Carol Krauss
I know that "ejaculate" is a verb denoting
a spirited reply in Victorian novels.
Stephen Bunch
In the end, dogs did not ravage the Eastern sun
John Riley
