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2021 Touchstone Poem Award Nominees
The editors are pleased to announce our nominees for The Haiku Foundation's 2021 Touchstone Poem awards. Our thanks to the authors of these poems. We wish them luck!
Fall 2021 (Issue 2)
mountain path
almost reaching
the Milky Way
Nadejda Kostadinova
redwoods the rain that never reaches us
Cherie Hunter Day
through a cedar grove
the flickering lights
of an RV park
John Budan
weaned calf
the mountaintop
swallowed by clouds
Polona Oblak
new year’s eve
the kiss
of beer froth
Agnes Eva Savich
chemotherapy
I stop by the barbershop
just to say hello
Bill Kenney
my youth
where the tree
where the treehouse was
Alan S. Bridges
memorial bench
a ladybug rests
on your name
Antoinette Cheung
her evening alone
the paparazzi
of fireflies
Dan Schwerin
counting days
by pill dispenser
the waning light
Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff

Spring, 2021 (Issue 1)
open all night
the waitress gazes into
her reflection
Bill Kenney
season after season
grass rises and rises
my husband
Grace Cavalieri
spring sun
still some winter
in the turtle
Laurie D. Morrissey
first frost
the breaths of geese
on the field
Jacquie Pearce
sweet potato
the peeling away
of intimacy
Joanna Ashwell
reclining seals
the still life
of the sea
Peter Newton
a rainy day inside what I am
Lori Becherer
a tanker truck stamped flammable the summer moon
paul m.
smooth in my hand the stone’s long journey
David Berger
stepping stones
across the stream
interrupted sky
Brad Bennett