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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3862 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Eggs Gathered in the Bulrush Gary Blankenship the boy, salvation of drought poor farmers, drowns in less than two inches of water the girl, no one to drive her to the Bluff Saturday nights, turns from buried promises the wife, stuck between stove, wringer and runny noses, over-salts cornbread batter the husband, neglected, searches the future in longneck bottles, empties over the Bluff the grandfather, now lost between the day his brother killed and his fiancée won as his own the grandmother, melanoma dead one year to the day her grandson shallow-drowned his baby born in the season pintails nest in bulrushes and bullfrogs wait for summer (inspired by the movie, The Stone Boy, details in the work above nothing like those in the flick) |
