2nd Annual SWWIM LOVES YOU BACK Donor Roll Call Brooke Bovee Helene Fisher Majda Gama Valentina Gnup Hilary King Diane LeBlanc Arden Levine Anne Marie Macari Chloe Martinez Susan Milchman Erin Murphy Julie Murphy
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2nd Annual SWWIM LOVES YOU BACK And the winner is... LARA PAYNE
Seedheads, golden Lara Payne Such an abundance of green, I used to think, passing that corner lot, daily But the man was taken from his lawn two weeks ago, now, and the grass grows uncut and unruly. We are in gold time, now, gold season. Light abundant in its waning glory. A whole field of children running, kicking. Dive and fall. Voices meld with owl and hawk, the last peepers. I am the partially rusted crank of a bicycle that barely rattles. I am the skill you pretend will come back. Memory grows in me like that uncut grass will, one season later. If I take the high path above the river who will I see, fear? Will ticks unstick from tall grass, attach to my churning legs? Tick tick tick the bicycle is singing, now. Everything ends the grasshoppers sing and the sunset-bound birds, and the man in some cell, taken from my street while I walked in sun at the farmer’s market.
It’s Week 3 of our Second Annual SWWIM Loves You Back! Digital Broadside Sweepstakes! Many thanks to all of our Week 3 donors and congratulations to this week’s winner, Lara Payne! Have you been published in SWWIM Every Day?
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