January 3, 2026

Winners

When God Lets My Body Bewhen god lets my body be / from each brave eye shall sprout a tree / fruit that dangles therefrom

E. E. Cummings14

#1

5

Fall SongAnother year gone, leaving everywhere / its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, / the uneaten fruits crumbling damply

#2

2

Morning (Love Sonnet XXVII)Naked you are simple as one of your hands; / Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round. / You've moon-lines, apple pathways

#2

2

Other poems

The Thin PeopleThey are always with us, the thin people / Meager of dimension as the gray people / On a movie-screen. They

1

The Garden Of ErosIt is full summer now, the heart of June; / Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir / Upon the upland meadow where too soon

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