| InterBoard Poetry Competition | |
DEFINITION
T.E. Ballard
(The Writer’s Block)
It was not death she feared
but wings, startled and dense
searching the September fields
for corn. Every autumn
she’d pull the car to the side
for crows crossing the sky.
Once, one landed
on the hood of her car
and a tree followed.
An omen? When I told her
in Jung’s book of symbols
birds represent self,
the darker the color
the more repressed the need,
she laughed then sighed.
It is all hunger,
she said
hunger and flight.
Judge Alex Lemon’s comments: “Though it might be a touch melodramatic, ‘Definition’ is quite a wonderful poem. The movement of the lines push this poem into a state greater than what it might reach with its own words. The push and pull between content and silence--a fabrication; an invisible addition that makes this poem succeed.”
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