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Poetry Third Place: Sunday
City Paper’s 13th Annual Poetry Contest
Published: December 19, 2012
She smelled like
Sunday
Penance
Communion
Holy wine
She talked like
Show me your wrist
Trust me
There are bees in this hot church that
The ceiling fans will aggravate
Carve your name into the wooden pew
Right below mine
With Jesus fresh in your stomach
Anything bad you do
Is forgiven
In church
I would kneel, on the wooden pew
Where my grandfather once carved his name
As a little boy
I used to thirst for holy wine
Stare at teenage girls with fresh-cut hair
Wonder if the devil was tempting me by sitting Kelly Cummings across the aisle
She used to let the bees from the ceiling land on her
Fiction and Poetry Contest Winners
Fiction First Place: “CHAOS” by C.C. Vail
Fiction Second Place: “The Plagiarist” by F.P. Gamber
Fiction Third Place: “So Much Closer and Far More Brilliant” by Jody Costa
Poetry First Place: “Marie’s Dance” by Angie Cochrun
Poetry Second Place: “So Far Child”by Lydia Rich
Poetry Third Place: “Sunday” by Kyle Eichmann
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