NeverEnding Story

English Original peppering the morning egg I work through yesterday’s sedation and my gift of bad news Second Place, San Francisco Internati...

English Original spelling her way through the maze of life she trips up at the curve of the moon Laurels , 6, 2026 Katherine E. Winnick Chin...

English Original cleaning out Mother’s lingerie drawer the tears in her stockings sewn up so tightly -- all my unanswered questions Winter D...

English Original in a note to myself i list the deck’s split board the rake’s missing tine the gate’s broken latch ... and then there’s me A...

English Original they talk behind my back like flies who think they are  a carabao Jack Fruit Moon , 2009 Robert D. Wilson Chinese Translati...

English Original dreams stuck to the pavement like melted ice cream        your words         a gathering of flies M. Kei Chinese Translatio...

English Original home again I walk childhood streets in morning fog. . . where cobblestones end a river flows to the sea Marion Alice Poirie...

English Original the forest the stars, the moon all lost in fog ... how will he find his way from this life to the next The Eternity of Wave...

English Original treetops sway                                     in a sudden autumn wind too fierce to last so, too, I bend tonight to the...

English Original a sudden spurt of warm feeling ...               my blood          from a womb  I knew nothing about the unseen arc , 2017 ...

English Original throbbing headache blinds drawn against the dawn I picture in the rise and fall of notes birds flitting in the cold light A...

English Original casting his line into the golden ripples of the setting sun he catches nothing today but a basket full of peace Gusts , 19,...

English Original a whole day listening to the wind among green leaves ... at night, an old lullaby emerges in me Cattails , October 2021 Dan...

English Original knowing sorrow won’t go sailing or for a swim I take a long walk to the cliffs and back        First Place, 2012 San Franci...

English Original floating inside my mother's womb for nine months — how little she understood me Honorable Mention, Sanford Goldstein In...

English Original from the river's edge a blend of warbled songs highs and lows the harmony we share despite different notes Thelma Maria...

English Original a bullet was fired in the center of his forehead yet his face still moving as it haunts this eerie summer! White Letter Poe...

English Original skeleton keys in a mirror glinting at a doorway — the transparency of rain reconfigures our view Joanna Ashwell Chinese Tra...

English Original on the porch Dad's geraniums in clay pots blushing red -- no green trees for our view just the Mystic River bridge Mari...

English Original an afternoon as ordinary as seagulls but two lovers pose forever  M. Kei Chinese Translation (Traditional) 一個午後 如同海鷗般 平凡 但兩...