Ms. Jablonsky was presented with an honorary gift of a banana.

Special mentions: Tyler Nantt and Josiah Jenkins

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Ode to my Snowshoes

silly straitjacket laces control the insaneness of your toes
your fiery feet fly like frying pans, indeed
over the disaccharide cotton candy snow
the strings of a guitar are being plucked one by one

I want to play badminton behind a barn!
we swing wildly at a whirling birdie and miss
but we cartwheel our way home
under a colorful kool-aid sky

canoes surround my mellifluous feet
keeping them from pouring out onto the sand
they zigzag through a slalom course,
casually avoiding Bangkok, Detroit, and Constantinople

two halibut speak to each other, bubbles leaping from their mouths
colloquialisms scamper out the door…
and gather in my fishing net
to be plucked out by my pink, sticky fingers

--Brittany Jablonsky

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