Honorable Mentions, September 2008 InterBoard Poetry Competition

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InterBoard Poetry Competition

Honorable Mentions, September 2008

SNAKE SONG *Laurie Byro* (Desert Moon Review) I was never intended to be unique. Dawn appears as a shapeless cloud opening up the path and I believe in the world beyond my vision. Every dreamer is different. Some seek sunlight, some seek shade, others sleep in a starless night. In the witch grass a mate slipped me out of my coal-grey suit. She cleaved a blanket of ghost-skins. She belonged to me and not the earth, and we dissolved from flame to ash. Her truth is as flexible as her spine. In high summer thousands tangle with the wind. We are the wild braids on a mother’s head. We whistle our death tunes through the bones of fallen sparrows. We feast on the banquet of morning as the sun strikes the day like flint. I am not the lowest of creatures and yet I haven’t been blessed with wings. I will not entreat the trees to rustle their goodbyes and cover me in leaves. I won’t beg shivering stars into harvesting wishes on me. My blood thickens and sets. I shrink again into the crimson ground.


ZAMBEZI STORM *Beverleigh Gail Annegarn* (Mosaic Musings) Violet clouds roll like dragon’s breath over earth’s contours. In their wake, sharp raindrops spike expectant ground. Lightning spears pierce and lash chaotically silhouetting baobabs clinging to shuddering rock. Rain licks my face, trickles into my eyes, traps my clothing on my shivering flesh. Water shards, beamed by pyrotechnics, scurry down hills and banks. Gullies gouge and chisel toward the engorged river. A night — when elements scrape together: energies connect like war drums on heaven’s stage. Daylight reveals a cleansing... animals dance, pudgy plants perk and peek. Sunshine kisses the wounded.


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