one sharpened pencil point.
one unfathomed dress.
a million notes on your fingers.
three cloves of garlic and a tablespoon of olive oil in a silver pan.
ten shades of blue-gray under a desert sun (your eyes).
five perfect oils, purified and distilled.
eleven thoughts of memory.
six empty brown glasses of I.P.A.
fifteen lives before.
two, or maybe three, ahead.
fifty-thousand times you kissed me.
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Kristy Loxton
A human configuration of ancient stardust with a master's degree in Humanistic and Clinical Psychology.
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Dialogue Poetry Challenge Winners
Hannah Moore is a first-time grand prize winner with her dialogue poem, On Receipt of Bad News. This was a poem that genuinely engaged both with the exchange of our prompt, but also focussed on the way poetic rhythms of language could support the writer's conceit. It felt very truthful, too, the way one speaker wishes to ignore the news and focus on practicalities; there was a quiet heartbreak, here. Well done.
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