kids at school
with ash on their foreheads
must be that time of the year

Heather Nigh

Lent offerings
giving up everything
. . . even homework

TJ Holmes

head bowed
she escapes
her own mind

Jeremy Maxwell

back row of the church
barely listening
lost in thought

Aaron Fleming

Lent offerings
giving up everything
. . . even homework

back row of the church
barely listening
lost in thought

Lent offerings
giving up everything
. . . even homework

top quarter champion

TOP half Chamption

Lent offerings
giving up everything
. . . even homework

bottom quarter champion

spring thunderstorm—
the gas-station worker asks
the meaning of the ashes

ashes on my head . . .
an unknowing friend tries
wiping them off

spring thunderstorm—
the gas-station worker asks
the meaning of the ashes

nervously fidgeting
time to kneel
soot stained forehead

Debbie Vogel

ashes on my head . . .
an unknowing friend tries
wiping them off

Adam Falasz

spring thunderstorm—
the gas-station worker asks
the meaning of the ashes

Lexi DeSollar

his mother explains
the ashes
he takes her word for it

Kort Branscome

TOP half champion

Lent offerings
giving up everything
. . . even homework

CHAMPION

wrong time
for a family vacation
Mardi Gras

wrong time
for a family vacation
Mardi Gras

BOTTOM half champion

purple and gold beads
her shirt lifts
into the night

Kort Branscome

thousands of beads
hang from her neck . . .
the popular woman

Blaine Buente

Mardi Gras beads
litter the streets
. . . plastic boobies

Adam Falasz

wrong time
for a family vacation
Mardi Gras

Heather Nigh

thousands of beads
hang from her neck . . .
the popular woman

wrong time
for a family vacation
Mardi Gras

wrong time
for a family vacation
Mardi Gras

top quarter champion

BOTTOM half champion

wrong time
for a family vacation
Mardi Gras

bottom quarter champion

homeless man
and his tarnished saxophone
single street light

getting lost in the song
the time moves faster
than the music

homeless man
and his tarnished saxophone
single street light

jazz
and her, dancing
unrestrained and beautiful

TJ Holmes

getting lost in the song
the time moves faster
than the music

Aaron Fleming

lonely Mississippi
distant trumpet
whispers secrets to the stars

Austin Evans

homeless man
and his tarnished saxophone
single street light

Adam Falasz