CAKI WILKINSON
“When neon ginkgoes fan the window panes / and sycamores unroll their yellow sleeves”
True Rhyme
WILLIAM F. BELL
“I don’t know by what happy omen / A creature from the past came by”
MILES DAVID MOORE
“The headstones that withstood / A thousand storms and snows”
GINNY KACZMAREK
“The piercing ice of winter never ends / when you’re away.”
ALLISON JOSEPH
“If waves could wash away my sins in life— / all errors, indiscretions, and the blight / of caustic words”
ROBERT W. CRAWFORD
Winner of the 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
“The tourists take a snapshot of the sight — / But only if nobody’s sitting there.”
BRUCE BENNETT
“Not hearing, I suspect that you / again have turned to someone new”
ALFRED NICOL
“He does not say a word to me / that he might not take back again.”
SUSAN MCLEAN
“Gather rosebuds while you may; / drink your fill of Cabernet.”
WILLIAM BREEN
“Me sad. Me who love cookie cannot taste / with tongue of felt to cardboard pasted flat.”
