Touchstone Award Nominees Issue IV

 

Announcing and Congratulations to all Touchstone Award Nominees for the Shadow Pond Journal Issue IV 

Stefanie Bucifal

Alvin B Cruz

Oana Maria Daly

Eavonka Ettinger

Jahnavi Gogoi

Jimmy Pappas

Nalini Shetty

Kay Syrad

Steliana Cristina Voicu

Amber Winter

cloud-shaped the unfathomable forms of forgiveness

Stefanie Bucifal

her relapse

a crocus bud opens

in false spring

Alvin B Cruz 

flowing
into every tear
autumn rain

Oana Maria Daly

bitter wind

the faltering flutter

of a butterfly

Eavonka Ettinger  

sour jujube
signing divorce papers
on a winter's night

Jahnavi Gogoi 

entering the water

I stand in the rivers

of a river

Jimmy Pappas

zero-waste grocery—
shopping for morals
by the ounce

Nalini Shetty 

the buzzard’s talons

yellow as daffodils...

one eye snowdrop white

Kay Syrad

autumn way to work…
when does God read
all his emails?

Steliana Cristina Voicu 

purple gallinule her briefcase full of dreams

Amber Winter