Red

red

(10/29/00)

_________First Place__________first snow - the glow of brake lights on the off-ramp  hilary tann   

 ________Second Place________a hummingbird hovers then darts away -- plastic begonia  Angelikaorchard rain ~ baskets of ripe apples glisten  hortensia anderson

 _________Third Place________    fruit stand each cherry stem points to the sky  Cindy Teboaugust heat- the screaming sirens of fire trucks  Kathy Lippard Cobb

_________Below Third Place________

midnight fog lit only by the stop light  R. Marie Stutts

fading light a few tomatoes still left at the vegetable stand  Yu Chang

spaghetti sauce on her apron ... wine on his lips  Carol Raisfeld

cool morning

a flame tree

blooms

Patrick

sunset - a blackbird takes a berry from the bush  Alison Williams

produce section-- an old woman rejects hothouse tomatoes  *Billie Wilson

moonset along the shorefront loon eyes  an'ya

ocean tide the sunset washes in    out   ~kujira

at twilight

the hot rim of sundown -

leaves rustle

Marylouise Knight

empty beach the sun sets in a drunkard's eyes  m2

warm tones of a rosewood guitar the wine's blush  Christopher Patchel

hot embers at dawn remnants of last night's campfire glowing off cold hands  Dana Florestano

gray morning --

on top of a dirt heap

a poppy

max verhart

on the white china plate only the stains of cherries  Carla Sari

cutting my finger the towel no longer white  Sharon Wahl

fuchsia flowers - intense in the blue light before rain  Iris Pool

autumn picnic the giggle of preschoolers with ketchup smiles  Edward

a load of apples

waits for the light to change --

autumn sunset

Earl

leaf viewing season stop and go traffic on the mountain road  gary steinberg

the sun sets the water ablaze  Lisa CHarles

crushed rose petals between yellowed pages~ her flushed face smiling  AJae

her cherry lips sounds like a new season word to  me  emile molhuysen

colored dots

getting the hottest points

on the dominoes

pam

the Santa suit next to a vampire cape wide eyed grandchild  soji

fireplace reminiscing~ with brandied blushes and an old boyfriend  peigi

field of poppies now just picking one -micro lens  copyright 10/23/2000 by Wendy C. Bialek

vivid as his tie

caught in lies, the candidate...

nigh on raspberry

art

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