any board game
(1/27/02)
_________First Place__________
click of tiles
clatter of tongues
mah jong
Maleti
________Second Place________
finished game
the emptiness bound
by go stones
Tore Sverredal
spring breakup--
I explain that monogamy
is not a board game
Kathy Lippard Cobb
_________Third Place________
late night -
in between pint glasses
fallen chessmen
Deborah Watson
upstairs in the barn
the parcheesi board swings
from a rusty nail
MaryJane Turner
cold winter
between divorce lawyers
a pawn
Carmel C. Lively
_________Below Third Place________
monopoly -
with an eye on her investments
mom stays in the game
doris kasson
chess board by the fire
I prepare supper while he
plans his next move
sheila
grown sisters
still fighting
over who gets shoe
Hazel
still reminiscing
over the chessboard
grandpa sips tea
Carol Raisfeld
blue corn chips and beer-
selling Marvin Gardens
one more time
Dove
parcheesi
senile dementia
grandma cheats
Carol Sircoulomb
midnight
one more game
of scrabble
Janet Parker
upset board
tiles on the floor
new scrabble words
Patricia A. Laurent
monopoly
she collects my hand
on the board walk
Darrell Byrd
palpable absence ~
yuki slate and shell stones
in the Go quince bowls
Angele' Lux
black bishop
takes the queen
tower killed him
emile molhuysen
she wins again --
adding an e to ax
for triple score
soji
Valentine's Day
Scarlet with a candlestick
in the lounge
Earl Keener
howling wind -
a car full of children
heads for the poor farm
Laurene Post
the punished teenager
stays home all weekend--
do not pass go
DeVar
waiting for him
to make his move –
chess tournament
Linda Robeck
ouija board -
the haiku spirits catch us
slacking
hortensia anderson
playing scrabble
he phones the police station:
my sister is cheating
Michel
winter night romance
her perfect cribbage hand
steals his breath
Edward
Monopoly paybacks --
brother lands in jail
and I hold parole
Jennie Townsend
he left
to find another love
checkmate
Edith Muta
December full moon.
Our little daughter is going
to checkmate me.
Horst Ludwig
rainy night
colonel mustard did it in the study
with the lead pipe
Gene Williamson
Hothouse blooms abound
Too cold for cultivation ---
Marvin's Garden glows
ahom
king me!
getting divorced
over checkers
kathi
tabled, open book
long staring at the board --
a checkered past
art
chinese checkers
blue balls roll
in sparkling eyes!
ana babic