| InterBoard Poetry Competition | |
| Honorable Mention, December 2008 | |
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EVENING PRAYER Emily Brink (The Writer’s Block) For years I’ve tackled your mountain hoping to find some bristle of truth. A crevice warm as a puppy’s slick tongue. Your peak promises glory; delivers injury. I’ve subsisted too long on your snowmelt and yak butter diet. I have woven a coat from the strands of your hatred and the seams of your wit. Down in the village they’ve declared clocks useless and started evening prayer. Tibetan flags flutter in the wind like paper lamps in Santa Fe or quilts hanging on lines in a Midwestern town: it’s like being everywhere at once until the prayers are done, candles snuffed. I’m just a bird changing direction, alone in mid-air. 
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