Contest Winner

“in one dream, a rain shower in every room, matchbook tucked / into the hem of a yellow dress / fountain tumbling with smoke instead of water,”

False Aubade

“Night collapsed into day. Silence fell, / somewhere a new dimension grew.”

“Here I kiss the peach fuzz undersides of dandelion leaves, / of sharp-edged thistle for the tingle left behind, / my mouth a new land too”

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“If I could, I’d be as tender with words / as with husbands & I’d hammer / out pine dining chairs into cellos”

“I’ve been trying to whip sore / wounds into weapons, if only through language; / the tight lisp of my new name,”

“long and hungry, / contained, an / unbroken tube / of being.”

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