First Place:
Francine Banwarth

child's wake
the weight
of rain

Second Place:
Jim Kacian

gunshot the length of the lake

Third Place:
Rick Tarquinio

a stick caught
on the lip of the dam
winter's end

Honorable Mention:
Francine Banwarth

summer stars...
the old violin goes
to the highest bidder

Honorable Mention:
Kirsty Karkow

winter drags on...
I squeeze the last drops
from a teabag

Honorable Mention:
Origa

distant thunder—
a titmouse gives one chirp
and falls silent

Honorable Mention:
Bill Pauly

Alzheimer's birthday
each slice of the cake
takes part of her name

Honorable Mention:
Marie Summers

March winds
a decade has passed
by your grave

First Place:
w.f. owen

Indian summer
a spent salmon
washes ashore

Second Place:
Becky Barnhart

after the funeral
whiskers still
in his razor

Third Place:
Michael Fessler

the page-finders
of my father’s Daily Missal
losing their colors

Honorable Mention:
Marjorie Buettner

first buds of spring
   I change the washer’s setting
      to delicate

Honorable Mention:
George Swede

Among the gravestones
with names worn away
children play hide ‘n seek

First Place:
Billie Wilson

whalebone
from a beach near Savoonga—
winter rain

Second Place:
John Stevenson

All Saints morning
a path
of trodden leaves

Third Place:
Carolyn Hall

cremated
in her favorite kimono—
small green plums

Honorable Mention:
Timothy Russell

             spring rain—
the gravedigger latches the door
             of his backhoe

Honorable Mention:
Carolyn Hall

spring rain the cat's pink nipples

First Place:
Marjorie Buettner

loon calls
my daughter drawing circles
near the fire

Second Place:
Billie Wilson

summer evening—
from across the meadow
a call to supper

Third Place:
Michael Fessler

shivering on the roof
I rub my palms together
meteor shower

Honorable Mention:
John Thompson

    ocean breeze—
a strand of seaweed
    steadies the kite

Honorable Mention:
Ross Figgins

autumn rose—
     even as I sketch the wind
        more petals fall

Honorable Mention:
Doug Hunt

Humid July—
from the stove the smell
of old fires

Honorable Mention:
Harvey Hess

the wind of autumn
a homeless man warms himself
hand to mouth

First Place:
Kathy Lippard Cobb

broken easel—
the front yard blue
with wildflowers

Second Place (tie):
Linda Jeannette Ward

heat waves—
the hitchhiker shifts her child
to the other hip

Second Place (tie):
Leatrice Lifshitz

land's end—
sand in each bite
of my apple

Third Place:
W. F. Owen

Indian summer
a fish slips through
the gill net

Honorable Mention:
Jeanne Emrich

     her 18th birthday—
for the first time she notices
       my silences

Honorable Mention:
A. C. Missias

spring sunshine
      the climbing ivy
      filled with sparrows

First Place:
Michael Dylan Welch

 meteor shower—
    a gentle wave
wets our sandals

Second Place:
Yvonne Hardenbrook

      mountain hike
we drink from the beginning
      of a great river

Third Place (shared):
Tom Clausen

spring sun—
       high in his arms
             the newborn is shown

Third Place (shared):
Marian Olson

      snail—
to know
           its heart beats too

Honorable Mention:
LeRoy Gorman

   lethal injection
unable to shut
the blind dog's eyes

Honorable Mention:
Peggy Heinrich

     end of summer
the shape of his feet
    in his sneakers

Honorable Mention:
Linda Jeannette Ward

   Geronimo's grave
someone has left
   plastic flowers

First Place:
Yu Chang

new in town
the scent
of unknown flowers

Second Place:
Christopher Herold

foghorns . . .
we lower a kayak
into the sound

Third Place:
Celia Stuart-Powles

catalog time
the garden begins
without a seed

Honorable Mention:
Ferris Gilli

new butterfly ...
folded wings
lean into the wind

Honorable Mention:
Christopher Herold

morning overcast
a few seeds still dangle
from the dandelion

Honorable Mention:
R.A. Stefanac

break up
I leave behind
her butterfly net

Honorable Mention:
John Stevenson

walking home barefoot,
we enter the shadow
of the hill

Honorable Mention:
Tom Tico

autumn evening ...
a page of the old book
separates from the spine

First Place:
Randy Brooks

funeral procession ...
snowflakes blowing
into the headlights

Second Place:
Zinovy Vayman

autumn evening
my hospital window
becomes a mirror

Third Place:
Ernest Berry

storm clouds
the cry of a shearwater
circles the sky

Honorable Mention:
Margaret Chula

late into the night
we talk of revelations
moon through the pines

Honorable Mention:
Christopher Herold

the kettle whistles ...
           a blur of garden color
           on the window

Honorable Mention:
John Stevenson

winter beach
a piece of driftwood
charred at one end

Honorable Mention:
Ruth M. Yarrow

riveredge old growth:
a towering window
of stars

First Place:
June Moreau

I'm caught in it too—
the blossom-loosening wind

Second Place:
Gary Gay

Over the railroad tracks
the slow motion
of a snake

Third Place:
George Swede

The beetle I righted
flies straight into
a cobweb

Honorable Mention:
Helen Davie

leaf in my palm
its stem extends
my lifeline

Honorable Mention:
Susan Gaston

about the tree
over my small son's grave
—tell me

Honorable Mention:
William J. Higginson

musty smell
forgotten ... deep
into the text

Honorable Mention:
Connie Meester

that Venus!
leading the cupped moon
through every turn of the road

Honorable Mention:
Kohjin Sakamoto

"grabs" and "opens"
the fist
sowing seeds

First Place:
Leatrice Lifshitz

the river—
coming to it with nothing
in my hands

Second Place:
Kay F. Anderson

deep silence
          the orphaned nestlings
          this third morning

Third Place:
Jeffrey Witkin

summer solstice—
the long tips of lavender
bent by bees

Honorable Mention:
Sandra Fuhringer

snowbound
coloring inside
the lines

Honorable Mention:
LeRoy Gorman

the dumproad pond
tadpoles exit
a birdhouse

Honorable Mention:
Kohjin Sakamoto

still sun-warmed ...
the pulled-out scarecrow
in my arms

Honorable Mention:
vincent tripi

Changing the swallowtail
      changed by it
           the spring wind

First Place:
Leatrice Lifshitz

letting the branch go
a shower of petals falls
on the old woman

Second Place:
Michael Dylan Welch

toll booth lit for Christmas
from my hand to hers
warm change

Third Place:
Jim Kacian

winter seclusion
tending all day
the small fire

Honorable Mention:
Helen K. Davie

on the path
only one of us
touched by a falling leaf

Honorable Mention:
John Stevenson

winter, bedtime
   static flickers
       through a white sleeve

Honorable Mention:
Ruth Yarrow

warm river—
up to our necks
in sunset

Honorable Mention:
Jeanne Emrich

beneath the ice
the waterfall
                    still falling

First Place:
Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Old garden chair
sagging with the weight
of a single leaf.

Second Place:
Helen K. Davie

after the stroke ...
watching only the half of your face
that smiles

Third Place:
Peggy Heinrich

City window
mountains and pines
etched in frost

Honorable Mention:
Garry Gay

Autumn deepens
an empty snail shell
explored by an ant

Honorable Mention:
Christopher Herold

early morning sun
     scattered on the table
          several grains of salt

Honorable Mention:
Gary Hotham

snowflakes
no one will miss
melt in her hand

Honorable Mention:
John Stevenson

bright leaves
    blow through
       her dream house

First Place:
Sylvia Forges-Ryan

scattering his ashes
     the moon
          in bits and pieces

Second Place:
Virginia Brady Young

on the river
      of many names, one cloud
      floating

Third Place:
Elizabeth Searle Lamb

learning too late
he didn't like bubinga wood—
sun strikes the urn

Honorable Mention:
Penny Harter

the war memorial—
migrating butterflies
cover the names

Honorable Mention:
Jim Kacian

falling leaves
the house comes
out of the wood

Honorable Mention:
Leatrice Lifshitz

leaving you—
fog on either side
of the white heron

Honorable Mention:
June Moreau

Below zero
all curled up in the woodpile
the skin of a snake

First Place:
Carol A. Purington

deep winter.
                        the armload of firewood
                        chills the kitchen

Second Place:
James Chessing

mourning dove calls ...
     my elderly neighbor stills
          the sound of her hoeing

Third Place:
Lenard D. Moore

August morning—
a window washer wiping dust
from his sunglasses

First Place:
Bill Pauly

snowmelt ...
     she enters
     the earth on her knees

Second Place:
Michael Dylan Welch

an old woolen sweater
          taken yarn by yarn
                    from the snowbank

Third Place:
Elizabeth Searle Lamb

a white horse
drinks from the acequia
          blossoming locust

Special Award:
Alyson Pou

sunlight shines red
through my father's thumb
on the steering wheel

Special Award:
John Thompson

          two women crying
one giving birth
          the other being born

Special Award:
vincent tripi

Approaching the family plot ...
my furled umbrella
turns into a cane.

Honorable Mention:
Marc Arvid White

Chernobyl victim—
fingers pressing the plastic
to his wife's caress

Honorable Mention:
Christopher Herold

                        cloud shadow
           long enough to close
the poppies

Honorable Mention:
June Moreau

The thick clang
of a cowbell
the sun deepens

Honorable Mention:
Sydney Bougy

Roses
in the smaller room
more fragrant

Honorable Mention:
Vicki Silvers

Ninety winters
          Spellbound
                     Again

First Place:
Charles B. Dickson

silent cathedral
     stained-glass apostles
     dimming with dusk

Second Place:
R. J. Trayhern

          up the path
to touch that one oak
in last night's dream

Third Place:
Jim Boyd

dry leaves
the old archer
curves his eyebrow

Honorable Mention:
William Cullen, Jr.

soft rain—
the new grave
looks old

Honorable Mention:
Dee Evetts

morning sneeze—
the guitar in the corner
resonates

Honorable Mention:
George Swede

dusk
a lone car going the same way
as the river

Honorable Mention:
Tom Tico

First days of summer ...
     already the leaves gather
         beneath the sycamores

Honorable Mention:
Lee Gurga

fall leaves the trees the winter sky

First Place:
John Thompson

so many ways
within the waterfall
for water to fall

Second Place:
Dee Evetts

after the rain
on my vegetable patch
a new crop of stones

Third Place:
Joe Nutt

frozen in mud
by the vacant shanty:
lottery ticket

Honorable Mention:
Frederick Gasser

the potter's hands
gently shape the vase
     out of himself

Honorable Mention:
Garry Gay

Watermelon rind,
sitting in its own juice
the summer sun

Honorable Mention:
Lee Gurga

figure drawing class—
in the model's deepest shadows
a stark white string

Honorable Mention:
Robert Mainone

Ebb tide ...
    a little sea
         in the shell

Honorable Mention:
Joan Bulger Murphy

watching rain
pouring down ... pouring down
just watching

Honorable Mention:
Denver Stull

abandoned store—
     large sign reading
          WE NEVER CLOSE

First Place:
Dan Burke

a single strand
of spider silk
     stops her

Second Place:
Lesley Einer

endlessly becoming,
clouds

Third Place:
Jerry Kilbride

mime
lifting
fog

Senryu Award:
Carolyn Talmadge

taking time ...
listening
to the grocery clerk

Senryu Award:
Elizabeth St Jacques

in the Yukon
sleeping with one eye shut
the summer night

Senryu Award:
Bill Pauly

in soap bubbles
again and again
his face is broken

First Place:
Jerry Kilbride

yard sale,
sunlight filling
mason jars

Second Place:
Kathleen Burgy

leaving home ...
the smell of smoke
from old brick chimneys

Third Place:
Ross Figgins

frozen pond—
white antlers rise
through the ice

Honorable Mention:
Steven D. Dalachinsky

June night
my mother alone with
her cancer

Honorable Mention:
Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg

     at dinner
biting into the roast beef ...
     the butcher's thumb nail

Honorable Mention:
Dee Evetts

phoning the neighbors
their real voices
through the open window

Honorable Mention:
Dee Evetts

repeating the lecture
his eyes following
the window-cleaner's blade

Honorable Mention:
Esther Harris

Tools rusting
Unused on the work bench
A faucet dripping

Honorable Mention:
H. F. Noyes

full moon

      peering into
the half-built house

Honorable Mention:
Donald E. McLeod

dusk
drawing the pond's depth
to the surface

Honorable Mention:
Carol Montgomery

old woman, wrapping
her cat's gifts
—centering the bows

Honorable Mention:
Lynn G. Moore

on the way to work
a hot air balloon
up in the mist

Honorable Mention:
Denver Stull

this heat;
     the dog's tail
          the only breeze

First Place:
Ruth M. Yarrow

                light
up under the gull's wing:
              sunrise

Second Place:
Carol Montgomery

second husband
painting the fence
the same green

Third Place:
Clark Strand

such coolness
the snail stretches
its neck

Honorable Mention:
David E. LeCount

the one legged bird
that deep bend before
taking off

Honorable Mention:
Peggy Willis Lyles

bird song
lost
in bird song

Honorable Mention:
Bill Pauly

walking in on her
dead eyes reflecting
          snowfall

Honorable Mention:
Rebecca Rust

in the sea
the fireworks
rising

Honorable Mention:
Ruby Spriggs

bird feeder untouched ...

     alone again

Honorable Mention:
Ruth M. Yarrow

circling each thigh
     cool
of the night river

Senryu Award:
Carol Montgomery

     small child
afraid to throw away
    his Church Bulletin

First Place:
Stephen Hobson

     in utter stillness
the incense
          changes direction

Second Place:
David E. LeCount

early spring sun—
the spinster combs out her hair
for nesting birds

Third Place:
Ruth Yarrow

canyon:
at the very edge
          riversound

Honorable Mention:
Robert F. Mainone

Out of its slipper
     her bare foot talking
          under the table

Honorable Mention:
David Elliott

      Burial prayers
grandson playing hide and seek
      behind the stones

Honorable Mention:
Robert Kramer

between the fireflies
the changing shape of darkness

Honorable Mention:
Dorothy McLaughlin

My father's hammer
warm again
in my hand

Honorable Mention:
Margarita Mondrus Engle

under trees and sky
     the baby studies
     her hands

First Place:
Adele Kenny

migrating geese—
once there was so much
to say

Second Place:
Bill Pauly

sound of her voice
carrying eggs
across the ice

Third Place:
Alexis K. Rotella

moving
with the clock tower's shadow
the flower lady

First Place:
Bill Pauly

heart drawn in dust
by the old Indian ...
rain

Second Place:
Ross Figgins

whispered dusk—
      a fox picks its way
           across the ice

Third Place:
Ruth M. Yarrow

mist
lifting
the loon's cry

Honorable Mention:
Ruth M. Yarrow

snowman's eye
sinking in
the spring rain

Honorable Mention:
Joyce Walker Currier

Autumn afternoon:
I stand on the shadow
of the sparrow

Honorable Mention:
Bill Pauly

ten below zero:
man and boy walk through their breath
to read old tombstones

Honorable Mention:
Margarita Mondrus Engle

hot wind
the roadrunner's beak
opens and closes

Honorable Mention:
Charles L. Cutler

Blackbirds descend
through the floaters
in this eye

Honorable Mention:
Darold D. Braida

the old man
closes the shadow
in his hand

Honorable Mention:
Ruth M. Yarrow

spring drizzle
rounding the thorn
a drop of light

First Place:
Raymond Roseliep

              horizon
wild swan drifting through
      the woman's body

Second Place:
Chuck Brickley

deserted wharf
the mime bows
to the moon

Third Place:
Elizabeth Searle Lamb

a spider's web
across the windharp
the silence

Honorable Mention:
Rita Z. Mazur

under the back steps
     catfish still flop in the pail—
          the long August night

Honorable Mention:
Darold D. Braida

horns fold
at my shadow's touch;
brown slug

Honorable Mention:
Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg

      early April rain
that woman fills every jar,
    seals them forever

Honorable Mention:
Darold D. Braida

dead mynah bird ...
with each passing car
its wing flaps

Honorable Mention:
Edward P. Willey

Picking cotton—
      the memory
           of birdtracks in the snow

Honorable Mention:
Garry Gay

Old tea bag;
     tints the moon
          slightly

Honorable Mention:
David E. Evans

blackened walnut
left unopened—
winter solstice

Honorable Mention:
Thelma Murphy

Distant woodchopper
inside the cabin
axbite echoes

Honorable Mention:
Richard Bodner

    The grey cranes at dusk—
bending in a line along
     the crooked fenceposts

Honorable Mention:
L.A. Davidson

checking for water
the woman finds a full moon
trapped in the cistern

First Place:
Bill Pauly

Old woman,
rain in the eye
of her needle

Second Place (tie):
Gloria Buckner

The path shorter now,
underfoot the crumbling leaves;
the child runs ahead

Second Place (tie):
Elizabeth Searle Lamb

cry of the peacock widens the crack in the adobe wall

First Place:
Robert F. Mainone

fields of snow
     not only moonlight
          but the moon

Second Place:
Chuck Brickley

cold morning sea—
an old man towels
himself in the sunlight

Third Place:
Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg

fields of corn stretching
as far as the eye can see
within            a lost child

Honorable Mention:
L.A. Davidson

  crossing the bright sky
of a near-sighted swimmer,
     the song of a bird

Honorable Mention:
Furuta Soichi

and yet
perishable is flesh—
a mountain plum

Honorable Mention:
Bill Pauly

what thing cries out
deep inside us
cooking the turtle?

Honorable Mention:
Peggy Willis Lyles

Lights out
... the firefly
inside

Honorable Mention:
Gary Hotham

the wind
somewhere else—
bird tracks in a light snow

Honorable Mention:
Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg

apples cooking:
in the aroma
pictures of my mother canning

Honorable Mention:
Stephen Gould

Dawn
     another parting
with the moon

Honorable Mention:
Gary Hotham

back and forth goldfish hot & humid afternoon

First Place:
James O'Neil

the child
points at the moon
and says, "bird"

Second Place:
Darold D. Braida

one seagull
on a shaft of air;
dawn

Third Place:
Kirsten Stromberg

Lean man
Carving
The tree's dream.

Honorable Mention:
Marlene Wills

morning-glory folds into herself into her folds

Honorable Mention:
Cor van den Heuvel

from behind me
the shadow of the ticket-taker
comes down the aisle

Honorable Mention:
Michael O'Brien

Walking to Work

Pages lap at your feet
The quick eye holds up the news to the day

Honorable Mention:
Tal Streeter

Part of a dog
walking by upside down
in the roadside puddle

Honorable Mention:
Garry Gay

Where the ripple was
the fisherman casts his line;
another ripple

Honorable Mention:
Virginia Brady Young

Quiet strokes
of night swimmer: the slap
of beaver tails . . .

Honorable Mention:
Raymond Roseliep

never expecting
the lilies in November
nor the small coffin

Honorable Mention:
Michael McClintock

      the room's smallness
fills with light
      this morning of snow

Honorable Mention:
Joyce Walker Currier

The way of the conch—
blueing in the sea, and
echoing in the wind

First Place:
Elizabeth Searle Lamb

leaving      all the morning glories      closed

First Place (tie):
Robert F. Mainone

Old frog
    up to his ears
        in moonlight

First Place (tie):
Raymond Roseliep

reaching into sky
the girl breaks the wish—
bone of geese

First Place:
Jennifer Virgil

in a dark bag
    onions
          sprouting

Second Place:
R.E.T. Johnson

still lake—
a hawk makes off
with its image

Third Place:
Larry E. Martin

   skiers!
  standing
on the wind