Enjoy these exceptional poems by John Grey, Olinda Ninolakis, Jason
Ryberg, dan smith, and Diane Webster. Congrats to the nominees.
THE
APOLOGY
My apology
was insincere
but she
accepted it.
Then we kissed
and made up.
At least,
she made up.
I
made do.
~John Grey
K i n t s u g i
Awake and aware
The scalpel is there
Cuts in my face
Will help me place
What's right or wrong
Life is where I belong
Stitched up and plastered
Kintsugi on my cheek
Fault lines of the past
Joined
up at last
~Olinda Ninolakis
Blind Eye
There’s been a prison-
break of poets, tonight, and
the hound dogs and guards
are all out in force, but the
moon is casting a blind
eye.
~Jason Ryberg
Knucklebone
Outside the moon is
a knucklebone and someone
is staging a post-
post-modernist production
of Our Town in the old black
box theater of my dreams.
~Jason Ryberg
Piece
In The Valley
here a gun
there a gun
everywhere
a
gun gun
~dan smith
Shadows
in Jail
Shadows from the snow fence
stretch in jail-cell menace
across the drift blowing higher
in an attempt to escape
and race across the flats
to riot between highway lines
in the do-not-pass zone.
~Diane Webster
