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.
1st Place
Our footsteps were wild
Untamed, sporadic. Underneath,
The grass breathed heavy
Treva Noakes-Miller
2nd Place
Humid air I choke,
The swelter of summer mist,
I cough up rain clouds.
Julia Wahle
3rd 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
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