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Honorable Mention
Pure Utterance
Sean Matthews

behind the scenes
of poetry
beyond this pleasant
choreography

ordinary folks
unseen
thrust extraordinary
boulders

up hills
in the darkness
shoeless
strive to penetrate

the universe
or perhaps
more locally
the milky way

or even simply
the milking pail
which sits beneath
the milking cow's

hanging udder
waiting patiently
and purely
for a warm trickle

to issue down
into its own
little universe
yes regular joes

and janes
slave to tame
twenty-six children
who despise taming

all this
behind the glossed facade
below the placid surface
et cetera

so when a poem
approaches
hair slicked
rose clenched

between the teeth
and in his dapper way
asks
care to dance sweet mama

you can bet
that stem is full of thorns
and behind the smile
lie bleeding gums--

the price of pure utterance

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