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IPA's Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2023Christopher HunterLOUISA, AGE 6, AT REST Louisa alighting into place She twists with surpassing grace She folds her knees, Susan J KochSOFIA I cannot disremember John MitchellNICHOLAS II The ghost of the Tsar walks. Choirs sang at his birth, Death crowned him at his birth, Alise PalmerBELTANE A boy green shouldered, grows His eyes are the color of home - His laughter cannot be Rose PostmaON TELLING MY MOTHER I AM PREGNANT AGAIN My mother, who spent the day after my birth trying to decide but went on to have eight more, says: the doctors will tell you scrubbed from the slick surface of every sensory pathway a school bus window on a thick tule fog morning like the letters you traced with the tip of your cold finger to reveal them again and again, waiting to spell out beneath the ice on a Canadian lake, like a knot To read poems of previous IPA Pushcart Prize Nominees:IPA Nominees for the 2023 Pushcart Prize Copyright © 2023 Lyrical Iowa Iowa Poetry Association |
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