Judge Pascale Petit’s comments: “At the heart of this poem is a luminous kinaesthetic image. That crying girl carrying the window forward into the ‘gallery of summer’ lifts this poem onto another plane. It’s a movement out of the poem’s confines, into the open and future. Like the ‘egg named Harmony’ in her ovaries, it’s as if, at the core of the distress, there’s also the possibility for transformation. This powerful image, coupled with the synaesthetic language of ‘the major sevenths / sound like doorways,’ made me go back and reread the poem many times for sheer pleasure. I enjoyed this poet’s concentrated use of language and evocative image-making.”