Clermont College Library received 73 exceptional haiku entries from 31 students this year.

First place winner, Treva Noakes-Miller, won a $50 gift card and all winners will be published in the East Fork, Clermont’s online literary journal.

 

1^st Place

Our footsteps were wild

Untamed, sporadic. Underneath,

The grass breathed heavy

Treva Noakes-Miller

 

2^nd Place

Humid air I choke,

The swelter of summer mist,

I cough up rain clouds.

Julia Wahle

 

3^rd Place

I have never seen

ever more than one heron,

is it the same one?

Benjamin Ward

 

Honorable Mentions

 

Buy the neighbors land,

you go to take down the fence,

a tree grows through it

Benjamin Ward

 

They found the perfect soldier,

I could’ve followed them to hell and back,

and maybe I did.

McKenzie Bracco

 

In the dead of night

She suffered and was born dead

Through love she breathed

Christine Campbell

 

That night he held me

Fireflies were candlelight

And my ribs, a cage

Treva Noakes-Miller

 

Wrinkled sky, ripped clouds

Creases where you leaned in, drowned.

Ripples without sound

Treva Noakes-Miller

 

My art is something

raised by howling packs of wolves

drawing little lambs.

Jillian Cofskey

Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager