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Another IBPC First |
| Posted by Administrator (admin) on Dec 29 2010 at 3:06 AM |
My poem, Hush, has placed first in the monthly IBPC November contest adding to two other firsts this year, January and February. Judge Paul Lisicky wrote:
The music, the line breaks, the evocative description: everything in sync here.
Here's the poem:
Hush
by Jude Goodwin
When the rains come
there’ll be pumpkins
rotting in the garden
and bargain store spider webs
heavy on the leafless sumac
and when the darkness humps the grasses,
clumps along the concrete walk
there’ll be poppies
bleeding onto stone,
there’ll be old voices
reading the names.
When the cold grows bold
there’ll be death
in every window box –
and love strokes me,
love says shush.
When the supper’s done
there’ll be a fireside
and strings drawn
from a wooden box,
and love
says hush.
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