First Place, Poetry Contest For K Opinions vary as we wait to hear if her health is billed clean as spic-n-span, and in my bumbling fearful heartbreak I find myself as useless in consolation as I imagine; no more, no less … I loathe this mortal question. Standing bald and ashen, still she teaches not [...]
Contest Honorees, Poetry, Winter 2009
Expectancy
by Lara Niedermeyer
Verdant Anchor
by Lara Niedermeyer
For Gram It’s been a summertime of solace like I’ve had before, soaking up the warmth of your bright soul and listening to your yarns and ponderings. I’ve filled myself to overflowing with your fresh perspective, born of ice cream through the alleyway and days with only soap of raging lye and learning not to [...]
Internal Idiom Revised
by Lara Niedermeyer
Silver lines snake up my belly and my daughter claims them with childlike pride and I’ve spent a few rounds flat on the floor, unresponsive as nobody’s business, so why should I feel on the less-than side of the catwalk? Skin-deep seems a little underrated as I try and button up and cannot seem to [...]