Thrilled to receive 3rd Place in this year's contest
ragged clouds
the sleeping bag inside
a refrigerator box
3rd Place
Sharpening the Green Pencil, 2026
Judge's comments:
One might be tempted to read this as an "as above, so below" haiku — but I see it operating in the opposite direction, along the lines of a certain couplet by the visionary poet William Blake (from "Auguries of Innocence"): "The Beggar's Rags, fluttering in Air, / Does to Rags the Heavens tear." This haiku may represent an even more stinging opprobrium, with the time-release power of its purer "show, don't tell" approach.
—Scott Mason
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