white squalls
appear in the distance
without warning
this vision of something
I do not want to know
This issue includes the results of the 2019 San Francisco International Rengay Competition:
Rengay written with Jennifer Hambrick (in normal type) and Debbie Strange (in italics):
In the Key of Grey
hydro lines
the sixteenth notes
of grackles
morning
in the key of grey
the lullaby
of wind through grain
empty silo
high lonesome
a crush of midnight
shadows
barbed wire
the descant of coyotes
curving
into the distance
a train's lament
Third Place (tied)
Excerpted from the judge's comments:
...It was one of very few rengay with a double theme. And the music references are skillfully incorporated into each verse, all of which relate very nicely to one another. I found this rengay to be very aesthetically pleasing.
—Seren Fargo
