Only Words

Only Words

by Carolyne Rohrig
and Marco Fraticelli

First place winner in the 2006 San Francisco International Competition Awards


poem idea
on a napkin
in lipstick (cr)

note of condolence
run-on sentence (mf)

red
her phone card
on my dresser (cr)

carving
my initials
only (mf)

under his sleeve
concentration camp number (cr)

writer's block
the moth
circles my lamp (mf)