Alone/Lonely
alone/lonely
(3/1, 1998)
First Place
alone at the party
counting the eggs
in the caviar Carolyne
Second Place
fresh snowfall --
a mourning dove sits alone
atop the leaning fence AC Missias
Third Place
alone on the beach -
an empty crab shell
tumbling in the surf Tom Genovese
BELOW THIRD PLACE camping alone the crackle of small sticks in the fire jim kacian a spring walk alone- singing louder as the valley narrows Hugh Waterhouse alone on the gray river the sculler's white wake Joann lonely evening - she picks up the receiver on the first ring Susan Bond reading alone by the dim porch light soft thuds of beetles Ferris Alone, each Perseid falling Tom Williams solitary walk in a dark house a phone ringing paul m How different your pillow in this morning light -- waking alone Steve Rys cold soup - chatting up the phone solicitor doris kasson alone in bed only raucous honks of geese flying overhead Cindy Bene Ash Wednesday: she sits in the family pew alone Charles Trumbull mingling with the baby's cry her lonely song neca winter sun last cigarette burns down copyright 2/23/1998 by Wendy C. Bialek a father's day card gently placed on the tombstone the boy turns and leaves Marc S. old woman peers through the window - lonely eyes norm jensen all alone in the blue sky a hawk drifting kim freed - the toy top spins a smiling child plays in Spring alone ebj alone on the cold shore - no smooth stones for memory beads, just these broken shells -Noor alone in the sky the hawk drops a small dark piece -willard alone on the beach . . . the sand breathes after a wave Donald McLeod alone under the street light starless night Patricia A. Laurent at a table for two he looks at his watch ~ C L O S E D Tina skipping rope a lonely girl skipping rope Mark Alan Osterhaus Winter night - turning pages in the lonely warmth of my room Margarita alone the old matriarch walks away from the elephant herd -ito after the fire wind in charred trees sounding lonely Matt alone - lost in the deep woods looking at his compass bill lerz
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