This goat kicked me only once,
as if to say she knows
I’m an amateur
Category: Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
Milk
Pink
by Kari Smith
Runner-Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
like chrysanthemums, like tulips;
like the droopy pink heads of peonies
that filled our kitchen windowsill, spilling
over mason jars and plastic cups…
Time Under a Bridge
by Lisa Breger
Runner-Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
I don’t want to leave this world:
My friends are in it, and there’s so much beauty.