Some Poems Come

Non-Fiction Prose (Judge Diana Dawson Plattner is an award-winning freelance writer and full-time copy editor living in Athens, Georgia) First Prize"Studying Place Names: Some Assumptions and Problems" by Robert M. Rennick (Summer) Second Prize"Returning to Sustainability in Appalachia" by Bill Best (Winter) Third Prize"The Old Swimmin' Hole" by G.C. Compton (Summer) Honorable Mentions "A Long Rest" by Catherine Morgan (Spring) "Fetchin' and Carryin'" by Dixie Thacker (Fall) "November 9, 1947" by Lester Pross (Fall) Some Poems Come Some poems come like rain, torrential: gales of rushing wind, brush fire, wild. Some poems come like creeks in spring, thrashing water birdsong gurgling loam. Some seem firm, cool, urgent fossils pressed into rock, fragment thoughts ferns. Then there is the dust a time to wait a seeing spell. I sit on the bank, still: the quiet smell of leaves, bedrock, mold. —Pia Seagrave ...