Cold Moon Journal

Cold Moon Journal
Photo c. Alf B. Meier

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Touchstone Award Nominations (January through April 2024)

Announcing the Touchstone Award nominations from CMJ:


traffic slows

I move the dead rabbit

to safety

Tom Clausen




if peace

were a sound

snow angels

C.X. Turner




my inner bear

begins to hibernate

cold moon

Alfred Booth




a leafless tree

raises arms to the sky

praying for peace

Neena Singh




grunting

I try not to be an animal

but I am

Tony Williams




it could be winter or it could be worse

Robert Epstein




periodic table

the stars that flow

through us

Eugeniusz Zacharski




power outage

learning the shapes

of familiar things

Helen Ogden




his first recital

a round of applause

for all the pink

Barrie Levine




claiming the American dream an American gun

Susan Yavaniski




windstorm

reading a letter

not meant for me

Ruth Holzer