the baby's heartbeat
through the monitor
ET phone home
Betty Hartnett
eartoshell
ocean calling
I don't speak whale
Heather Dolye
windy day
clouds dance in the water
with the coots
Betty Hartnett
a little white dress
the girl plays in the mud
making friends with the toads
Megan McGurr
eartoshell
ocean calling
I don't speak whale
a little white dress
the girl plays in the mud
making friends with the toads
a little white dress
the girl plays in the mud
making friends with the toads
top quarter champion
TOP half Chamption
empty wine bottles—
robust laughter
echoes through the cabin
bottom quarter champion
empty wine bottles—
robust laughter
echoes through the cabin
look! look!
thrusting his hand
into the pond
empty wine bottles—
robust laughter
echoes through the cabin
lifting her on his back
sprinting to the lake
falling backward
Samantha Bies
look! look!
thrusting his hand
into the pond
Samantha Bies
empty wine bottles—
robust laughter
echoes through the cabin
Alizarin Salmi
hats on feet
socks on hands
biggest smile in the room
Uriah Walker
TOP half champion
empty wine bottles—
robust laughter
echoes through the cabin
CHAMPION
I break the cookie
full of hope
no fortune
I break the cookie
full of hope
no fortune
BOTTOM half champion
dry wildflowers
sway gently
beside the broken gate
Alizarin Salmi
each time I talk
with my step-mother . . .
her voice more frail
Betty Hartnett
the moon ceases to shine—
a black cat
under the tire of my car
Megan McGurr
winter frost arrives early
merciless
forest a graveyard
Hannah Mahr
dry wildflowers
sway gently
beside the broken gate
winter frost arrives early
merciless
forest a graveyard
dry wildflowers
sway gently
beside the broken gate
top quarter champion
BOTTOM half champion
I break the cookie
full of hope
no fortune
bottom quarter champion
I break the cookie
full of hope
no fortune
computer screen
freezes
escape, escape, escape
I break the cookie
full of hope
no fortune
computer screen
freezes
escape, escape, escape
Heather Dolye
the wall
chipping away slowly
building it thicker
Samantha Bies
I break the cookie
full of hope
no fortune
Emily Mihalkanin
following my every move
my only friend
my shadow
Emily Mihalkanin