AWARDS: San Francisco International Rengay Contest, 2023

 The Tour Boat’s Wake 
        Michael Dylan Welch and Billie Dee

San Diego Zoo—

a slow line
for the pandas 

a row of make-out cars
at Sunset Cliffs

         the Coronado Bridge
         curving over sailboats. . .
         the tour boat’s wake 

         sun glint on bay chop
         we paddle our kayaks past
         the USS Midway 

low-riders on parade
in Old Town 

orchid show
the Spreckels Organ
shakes Balboa Park  

Honorable Mention, 2023 (Judge: Gary Gay)

RENGAY: HSA Rengay Contest, 2022

Desert Highway
        Billie Dee and Naia

the feather trapped
in a Chevy grill
dust devil horizon

riding an updraft
            turkey vultures

        rock doves
        preen in the heat
        ATV exhaust

        windswept dunes
                distant echoes
                from campfires

old coyote
scavenging scraps

        star-filled night
        a kangaroo rat
        noses the tent flap


Honorable Mention (Judges: Kristan Lindquist, Michael Dylan Welch)

Frogpond 45.3, Autumn 2022