Congratulations!
| rescue boat a boy's request for one more trip | Srinivasa Rao Sambangi |
| deep winter the flashing red lights at her bedside | Richard L. Matta |
| reeds until they move heron’s legs | Ravi Kiran |
| cursive writing — grandson’s thoughts fly beyond the margin | Neena Singh |
| country roads all of us singing of home | Jamie Wimberly |
| mother’s belongings in boxes gathering clouds | Alvin B. Cruz |
| a puzzle missing piece childhood | Robert Witmer |
| cold shower the nettles erect | Tony Williams |
| flashes of red in the rose bush a touch and go robin | Katie Montagna |
| far from home the familiar language of a robin | Ravi Kiran |
| divorce day mold on the bread getting darker | Hifsa Ashraf |
| the many dialects of silent treatment | Ravi Kiran |
| jisei book learning to write the last page | Oscar Luparia |
| harvest time the village waits for grandma’s dinner | Aleksandra Rybczyńska |
| stout beer not too warm not too cool this autumn night | Bryan Rickert |
| bruised fruit she says she fell | Joseph P. Wechselberger |
| another lie told to the wife ice fishing | Mircea Moldovan |
| washing my hands with French-milled soap after scattering her ashes | John J. Dunphy |
| Gaza Strip even the sparrows starving | Pitt Büerken |
| free at last rites | Susan Burch |
| sudden remembrance of an empty crib gentling rain | John Hawkhead |
| at both ends of winter burning leaf scent | Bryan Rickert |
| a year after— my mother's closet just her scent | Nicholas Gentile |
| winter rain we choose to say remission | Doug Belville |
| rain bow sun above rain below | Pitt Büerken |
| softly this conflagration of wings | Stacy R. Nigliazzo |
| petrichor the room overflowing with his laughter | Mohua Maulik |
| tangled roots– clinging to the walls of a broken home | Jagajit Salam |
| spring moon father's laugh some where | Manasa Reddy Chichili |