Congratulations to Hazel Rogers whose poem Train Writing was runner up in the student category.
Train writing
Tis darker than when I climbed the stairs
The moon is rising behind a buttermilk sky
The green turns to black
The trees to skeletal protrusions leading a sordid jamboree over the pastures
It is in these days
When the sun meets the ferns
And the forest, as if breathing Pulses and sways
Wintertide morn on fronds Waterlogged foliole
This is where the sky meets the hills
And the trees, as though living
Quiver and shudder in the wind
The lights are bright in this here capsule
I am between loves of mine
Adieuing and gooddaying
From dawn-to-dawn
Between hearths and fires Hearts and smiles
Is my love spanning.
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