Nominations for the 2024 Touchstone Awards

January:

nursery ward baby's first barcode

~Keith Evetts



February:

twist of fate

a typo

in the tea leaves

~Kelly Moyer



March:

microwave burrito showing me its good side

~petro c. k.



May:

chrysalis moon  shedding my former self

~Debarati Sen



June:

on a hushed mountaintop

I play a melodious music

a rhythm of dots, dash, & space

~Fhen M.



July:

outdoors

the housefly and I

putting our feet up

~Melissa Dennison



August:

cryptocurrency the look on grandma's face

~Keith Evetts



September:

wings of geese moving on with my life

~Maya Daneva



October:

a tuft of lint

drifts from my sock

namaste

~Kelly Moyer



November:

fingers don't know how not to love your hair

~Mykyta Ryzhykh



defining

her shelf life…

the matrimonial column

~Rashmi VeSa



December:

midnight silence

another panic attack builds up

in my bones

~Nisha Raviprasad



twelve days 'til Christmas; the mother ship is over New Jersey

~Patrick Sweeney



observing the generally unobserved in the free museum of my mind

~Patrick Sweeney

 

Congratulations to these talented poets.

Afternoon of December 15, 2024


now leasing

my place

in the universe

~Kelly Moyer

 

 

 

twelve days 'til Christmas; the mother ship is over New Jersey

~Patrick Sweeney




Katsushika Hokusai Algorithm


Write, erase, rewrite

erase again, glitch, and then

an AI blossoms.

~Noah Berlatsky




new occupant

tree roots

in the basement

~Anthony Lusardi




early morning

a glaze of lake water

on the turtle’s shell

~Anthony Lusardi




clean sheets

the fresh scent

of abandonment

~Kelly Moyer




backyard renovations rings on an old stump

~Anthony Lusardi




she doesn't want to hear anything bad about bluejays in the snow

~Patrick Sweeney




moonless night

I surrender my fears

to The Elephant

~Kelly Moyer


eras

when Swiftian

meant Jonathan

~dan smith




soup kitchen

diner asks a server

for the recipe

~John J. Dunphy




observing the generally unobserved in the free museum of my mind

~Patrick Sweeney




my emotional equilibrium is easily disturbed

by the mere mention of going somewhere else

to do something

~Patrick Sweeney




when Santa crosses the thirty-eighth parallel

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

Our Touchstone Award nominations to be announced tomorrow!