Photo

photo

(12/24/00)

_________First Place__________snowy photograph -- grandfather stands at the end of his tracks  Earl Keener

 ________Second Place________   photos on the wall. . . with each step up the stairs the family grows  Betty

 _________Third Place________       old photographs fifty years of her life in a shoebox  Sue

_________Below Third Place________

faded photograph pale brown ancestors almost gone  max verhart

on the mantelshelf photos of the grandchildren she never sees  hilary tann

faded photograph--

wishing you still looked

at me that way

Kathy Lippard Cobb

passport photo --

sit like a buddha

I tell myself

gop

slush turns to ice her photo in his wallet  covers mine  Lesley

last shoebox . . . black-and-white photographs with a rose sachet  Mark Brooks

wearing a mask

in that photograph

but the eyes are hers

- Johannes

darkroom

the photograph

emerges into life

-Mallory Scott

baby's first photo -- the sonogram  is beautiful  Carol Raisfeld 

scratched lens memory is faded as the photograph  ~ A Ramey

faded photograph on the home made altar the smell of incense  Yu Chang

the smiles

in the old photo --

year ending

maarof

soft breeze - the falling snow  holds down a photo  Tore Sverredal

faded photograph of a young woman in love-- mother's mystery  Billie Wilson

overexposed the only photo in the nursery  marius

faded photograph

taped to the dresser mirror

again she glances

Ken Kuniyuki

baby photos    the cute expressions    on the parents' faces  Christopher Patchel 

after a snowstorm - one last photo of home  art

airbrushed snow

silently covers the green lawn -

seasoning the photo

copyright 12/19/2000 by Wendy C. Bialek

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