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Honorable Mention
The Truth as Buoyancy
Jim Doss

With a carpenter’s strong hands,
our guide points excitedly— this way
to where the shell struck,
and blood splashed up on the walls.

This way, hurry! The words still resonate
in his throat when the next explosion
hits and knocks us backwards
as everything grays into an eclipse.

Then we crawl forward with ears
ringing through the dust and rubble
to see his body half submerged
in a sea of mud bricks
as old as the Koran itself

while his severed hand floats
on top like a beacon.

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