Sheets

sheets

(4/26, 1998)

First Place   summer rain --   on top of the sheets   we lie without touching                            AC MissiasSecond Place   Rumpled sheets -   all around us   folds of sunlight and shadow                                 MargaritaThird Place   coffeehouse poet   caught by the rain-   a blank sheet of paper                          Joseph Kirschner   spring cottage   pulling white sheets   from the furniture                       paul mBELOW THIRD PLACE   laundry day -   two children folding themselves   into the sheets                    Donald McLeod       the whisper of       falling plum petals       against drying sheets                              Harold           washing sheets           by the river           -a parade of ducks                               Carolyne               late evening -               my father's hands play               faded sheet music                                  hilary tann   spring winds caress   the old piano, music sheets   drift to the floor                       Peg Lowmiller     first light     through the sheets     one bird's song                      Mark Alan Osterhaus         her scent         in the tangled bed sheets -         cherry blossom morning                                 Tom Genovese              slow breathing              behind a wrinkled sheet              the cat stalks her toes                                       Paul MacNeil   flannel sheets   and twilight birdsongs   ...one moment more                       ebj     beaver skins     a sheet of birch bark     grips the canoe                      -willard         amid the jumble         of tangled sheets-         watching you sleep                             sue            sheets of rain            curve in the wind -            winter storm                         -ito   winter sheets   colder than ever   now she's gone                   andy       after the storm       she reads his letter             -sheets of ice                             jean king            sheeting in the jib -            the bow wave gurgle            growing                     Glen L. Keener                   sheet angel--                  your outline in bed                   remaining                              Tom Williams       at her bedside --       looking over the sheet       where once a breast was           copyright 4/21/1998 by Wendy C. Bialek   flannel sheets   replaced by cotton percale--   spring cleaning                    Cindy Bene      seedbed sheets...      fields of white gauze      quiet under the moon                            Ferris          sheet after sheet          of love poems          in the spring gale                              Kris Kondo   airing the bedlinen;   the spring rain falls in sheets                                    Charles Trumbull        sheets of spring rain - -        wet shoppers scrambling        for the only cab                          bill lerz             strong spring gust             clean sheets             entangled in the bushes                                      Amanda McDevitt                rumpled sheets --                children bouncing                their trampoline                                  Betty                                                      

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