And the Winner of the First Ever “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . .

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Sarah Tsiang and the Arc Poetry Magazine Board also selected three runners-up:

• • • “Last words” by Pamela Porter
    • “Spring Equinox” by Kirsteen MacLeod
    • “One of Fifty Creosote Legends” by Amanda Earl

 

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Hello goodbye
by Lee Parpart

Your dad and I both love
you.

We love you the way a
king

crab loves the little
moan

that escapes a person’s
lips

as butter
drips

along their
chin.

If small
teeth

ever sink
into

your own
flesh

you will
know

how and why to
abandon

yourself to
another.

 

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You still have time to enter Arc’s May Award of Awesomeness!