really fun news

I recently entered a little poem in a competition by Painted Bride Quarterly, using the required words "peach", "tugboat", and "surprise".  The fun news is that I won!  "Tugboat Surprise" is featured this month on PBQ website's sidebar. 

Tugboat Surprise

I grow fins, set sail

hauling dollops of peaches;

a whole doxology of fruit

sings like jelly

in the hull.

A papier-mâché sailor

called Bag of Elbows,

made of Crayola wrappers

and old chicken wire,

mans the helm.

We steep late, via

the Cape of Good Hope,

some kind of little enigma,

dodging the spray

of ocean liners

and whales. 

Painted Bride Quarterly, established in Philadelphia in 1973, sponsored in part by the Department of English & Philosophy and the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, is one of the country’s longest running literary magazines. PBQ is a community-based, independent, non-profit literary magazine published quarterly online and annually in print, making it accessible to a broad and diverse audience. They publish poetry, fiction, and prose from emerging and established authors from across the country and around the world.