What ever happened?

to those short, power packed, 
 

Thanks
To All Players
filled with adventure, and utterly devoid of cliché poems, with openings that hoover the reader and endings that lean on you...

Well,  I found one!  Jennifer McCoy wins ten dollars cash for her poem, Guilt at Betraying a Friend; published online within these pages... and printed in the Jan 2001 print issue.  Can there be any more?   (Cash's in the mail, Mom!)

 

Jennifer McCoy
Guilt at Betraying a Friend

I may drown
in the barrel of my stomach;
skin may tear 
from limbs in 
gulfs of 
acidic guilt.
I may rot
in this.
 

"Finally a contest I feel comfortable entering. I also am in love with poems that act as a punch in the gut. Perhaps one of the three I've attached will offer the kind of impact  you are seeking."
Jennifer McCoy has appeared in print in Dry Creek Review and recently online in Stirrings magazine.  She has performed at several poetry readings, including two Denver Poetry Slam competitions.  "My goal is to compile a collection of my work by next fall under the working title, The History of a Girl."   Email: JMcCoy@RWBeck.com
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