Fire Escape

fire escape

(12/22, 1996)

FIRST PLACE   

after the rainstorm   

a few wet leaves cling to   

the fire escape                               

--Susan　

SECOND PLACE      

scarlet baloon stuck      

halfway      

on the fire escape                                             

--Charles Trumbull 

tenement kidslolling 

on the fire escape          

summer heat                                  

--Francine Porad   

on the fire escape   

kids calling back and forth   

across the alley                                                

--acm　  

THIRD PLACE      

on the fire escape      

sneaking a smoke -      

siren's call                          

--doris kasson

BELOW Third PLACE   

daybreak   

a swathe of morning glories   

on the fire escape                                    

--Yu Chang                        

highrise geraniums 

-ants commuting

up the fire escape                                

-- Paul W MacNeil                       

an ant      

on the fire escape       

searching for earth                                       

 --Ed Shaheen                        

trumpet creepers   

climbing fire escape--   

building condemned                                       

--Ferris Gilli　

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