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The Amon Liner Poetry Prize Poem THE BRIDGE IN SUMMER

I come to watch the warpaint shiners swim—
minnows with red-tinged fins tunnel
through a biting current. Downstream, children
swing off a rope, trusting the river
to break their fall. It’s hard to have so much faith—

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THE LUCKY BUDDHA

Suqi Karen Sims

The Lucky Buddha is neither fortuitous nor spiritual, as the name would suggest. It is just a restaurant, and not a very nice one. Although it’s not a not nice one either. It is newly opened, at least—an oasis of cheap green tea and pickled ginger in a sea of dying Subways and froyo. Like the suburb that surrounds its strip mall…

THE HONEYWAGONS

Matt Poindexter

Give me an eternity of this:
huddled close to you
at a small town parade
as shivering cheerleaders
lob suckers at us

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