Mido Matching Contest - 3 - Fall 2016 • Millikin University

oiling the rusty chain
for our first ride
the trail

I wiggle my toes
walking on the moon
upside down

bare toes
ruthlessly tickle the grass
their turn now

laying under a spruce
pine needles fall
on her sewing hand

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top quarter champion

 

TOP half Chamption

 

bottom quarter champion

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man landed
on the moon
why not Venus?

my fingertip erases
a supernova
peek a boo

arms spread wide
             she takes in the wind

thunder rumbles
I want to sink into it
a perfectly tuned chord

 

TOP half champion

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CHAMPION
 

 

 

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BOTTOM half champion

stopped rollercoaster
we follow the tracks
to the beginning

driving down all
the old back roads
I once knew by heart

marshmallows
the closest thing
to clouds

autumn gust
the scarecrow topples
into corn stalks

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BOTTOM half champion

 

bottom quarter champion

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second hand keeping time
her sigh
and the wind's song

improvising dinner
singing scat to the tune
of the refrigerator

spring cleaning
in the donation box
every doll        but one

the only child
dyes Easter eggs
old friends

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