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Pushcart Prize Nominations from 2017
Steve Deutsch, Three Poems
The Year We All Got Cancer
Steve Deutsch
Winter stayed.
The April rain so cold
it left blisters of ice
on an earth
as scarred and pockmarked
as a landscape mired in war.
We waited through the freeze and thaw Continue reading “Steve Deutsch, Three Poems”
Lynn Hoggard, Two Poems
Love in the Desert
Lynn Hoggard
In forty-five minutes, he said, go outside
with a camera and take my picture. If no shots
go astray at the nearby shooting range,
I’ll be on top of that mountain,
and I’ll be waving my arms.
Then my crazy, jogging husband
was on his way as I sat, camera in hand,
in the Chihuahuan Desert, thinking about
roads high and low that we had traveled
and those who venture or who stay behind. Continue reading “Lynn Hoggard, Two Poems”
Mary Panke, Two Poems
Forget the Snail
Mary Panke
Maybe depression is the color of biology,
painted on genes like green-brown eyes
or chalk-blue streaks, blurred by staying under
water too long. Or olive-grey lichens clinging
to oaks, their leaves mothers’ hands calling
you back to shore, while you drift and drift, numb
in the salty sling of the tide, Continue reading “Mary Panke, Two Poems”
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