Competition

2007 Winners

First Prize

Triads
by Julie Lynch

Things to be expected
Forgiveness from your family
Thunder after lightning
To die before your children

Things not to be expected
Comfort on a camp mattress
An ethical used-car salesman
A sincere apology from an alcoholic

Things to be remembered
Curls at the nape of his neck
Old blue laughing eyes
The heady scent of Jasmine

Things to be forgotten
A not quite still born baby
A shadow on a lung
That 3 a.m. phone call in black October

Fragile things
The self-esteem of children
Dandelion seeds
Beached starfish

Unacceptable things
Stale urine on Nana’s slippers
A Voluptuous nun
Self-deceit

Lost things
Railway picnics at the beach
Christmas letters by hand
The other sock

Impossible things
To run on empty
To fly to the sun
Endlessness

Possible things
To eat money
To laugh at death
To reject rejection