Lo, How the Years Are Blooming

by Peg Duthie

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poem ©2017 by Peg Duthie
video ©2017 by JS Graustein
music ©2017 by Ian Graustein

Spacing for Sky

by Peg Duthie

typography by JS Graustein

Peg Duthie is a regular contributor to unFold and the author of Measured Extravagance (Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2012).

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Spacing for Sky

Thinned
seedlings
in a pail
of rainwater:
gifts.

© 2016, Peg Duthie

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Five Finger Frustration

Trying to scale
Rachmaninoff –
my pinky
pointing
every which where
except at myself.

© 2014, Peg Duthie

Also visit Peg Duthie’s work at http://www.nashpanache.com

Five (5) Contest Shortlist Poems

We’ll run all shortlist poems–then announce the contest winner . . . Stay tuned!

UPDATE (3 July 2014)

The shortlisted works, in the order they appeared:

• untitled by J.C. Elkin
• Mixed Couple by Emily Abedon
• Not-So-Lucky-Bird by Ashley Odom
• Interval by Judy Bertelsen
• Five Finger Frustration by Peg Duthie
• untitled by Meg Eden Kuyatt
• 5 a.m. by Corey Mesler
• Signs of Reincarnation at Le Parker Meridien Hotel NY, NY (a found poem) by Brad Rose
• untitled by Barbara LaMorticella
• TATOO by Stephanie King

unFold Five (5) Contest Shortlist

Thanks to all who participated! You made this decision difficult—our inbox overflowed with fives. Too, too many superlative fives. We’re now thinking in fives.

Here, at last, our decisions. We are proud to announce: 10 poets of Five (5). In alphabetical order . . . the shortlist.

Emily Abedon,“Mixed Couple”
Judy Bertelsen, “Interval”
Peg Duthie, “Five-Finger Frustration”
J.C. Elkin, Untitled
Stephanie King, “Tattoo”
Meg Eden Kuyatt, Untitled
Barbara LaMorticella, Untitled
Corey Mesler, “5 a.m.”
Ashley Odom, “Not-So-Lucky Bird”
Brad Rose, “Signs of Reincarnation at Le Parker Meridien Hotel, NY, NY (a Found Poem)”