judges: Maggie Hart, Tonya Parrish, JoDee Whitlock, Erin Crow
july picnic yellow jackets circle the trash can
Kerry Hammergren
soda-pop can out pops a yellow-jacket
Brock Peoples
baseball bat the boy runs from the hive
Stevan Doll
black-eyed susans winking . . . buzzing yellow jackets dance
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day filled with rain one spot of sunshine a yellow jacket
Medea Mosxona
after stinging my foot the yellow jacket dines on a sweet clover
Justin Matthews
yellow jacket buzzing lying still in the grass stings my friend instead
with pollen on its back the yellow jacket journeys to the next flower
Krista Duffett
abandoned on the park bench the child's yellow jacket first warm day
Brianne Marsel
sitting in the closet the yellow jacket she HAD to buy
Stephanie Ford
discount tag in the thrift shop yellow jacket
Shannon Kroner
violent waves overturned boat empty yellow life jacket
Jane Millikin
poverty the kindergartner’s yellow jacket with another girl's name inside
Meg Schleppenbach
Grandpa’s little girl swallowed up by her daddy’s yellow slicker
AJ Cunningham
the wind carelessly carries the yellow jacket throughout the field
Nikki Garry
playing in the mud yellow jacket dirty brown
© 2002, Randy Brooks • Millikin University All rights returned to authors upon publication.