Honorable Mention: where to hide chocolate (for Caity)
when you were young, stashing the chocolate cold behind vegetables was just right. then you grew - like a mushroom. behind the eggs?...
Honorable Mention: Paper Dolls
It sounded like something dropped, a bag perhaps or wet towels. Not a person, twitching and twelve years old in a doorway. Her...
Honorable Mention: Worry
Worry You can see it in the wrinkles on a man's forehead, or in the way his jaw clinches tight. You can see it...
Honorable Mention: blithering synonyms
if i had to hold my breath for you to be honey i’d turn blue before i say goodbye to you
Honorable Mention: Spy
Crabapples crushed. The sickly sweet smell and bees hanging around. Mowing the lawn, maybe the last time; frost has kissed us once or twice....
Honorable Mention: Jelly Jar
Scrape at my soul jar and rattle that knife, It’s thinned out, see, and is streaked at the sides. You’ve had my preserves, my...
Honorable Mention: In the Suburbs
perfect still trees on the summer street a rollerblader floats through in dotted half rhythms a guy that looks like Clark Kent walks five...
Honorable Mention: youth
time was invented by man, so dismantle his pendulum; until clocks crack under the weight of your teeth, until minutes bounce backwards and backwards...
Honorable Mention: The Mechanics of Happily Ever After
My father first saw me as an LSD vision while he was hiking in Wyoming. He was walking up mountains, trying to catch a...
Honorable Mention: Perfect Day
How would you describe the perfect day…. Would it involve rain in the sky and sleeping all day… Could it be the sun, sand,...