Monarchs Like gray haired first graders, They sit all in a line in their small chair desks, silent and alone, under the stale blue fluorescence …
Mark Hinkley
2020 Competition Winners
Jennifer Hawthorne
COVID Calendar The Sierra Club calendar lies open on my desk— a Sandhill crane and her chick opposite a page of lined empty spaces. On …
C.M. Clark
In the Valley of April Oh you pity the dead, the unintended lucky dead, who lay in their makeshift morgues, quiet now outside their cottoned …
David Kimball
Waiting for the Coronavirus Wave When I consider how my light is spent Within these four walls, inside this world so wide, And my compassionate …
Pat Draper
A Time Like This I never want to forget those twenty-six hours you last came home- The soft knock on my bedroom door at five …
Olivia Hajioff
The Sounds Before The Sounds I Knew Before Everyone says it’s quieter now, but there are more sounds: Not the bird’s song, but the first …
Anthony Nannetti
An Essential Worker Opines She was waiting in line Masked and standing on a floor decal As I rang out preceding customers Hoping she would …
Rikki Santer
Landmark The train like a wailing pronoun in the dark breath of night when quarantine responds to quarantine and I ask myself how do I …
Michelle Sharkey
Pandemic Hands Moments between hands Lockets of memories Lesson of Life Palm reading in real time Pandemic hands Hands in a flurry, hurried hands A …
Christina Kilby
Safekeeping Where do all the touches go for safekeeping? If I could collect them in a jar Like a child’s treasure I’d bury them in …