Something There Is
by Kim Hamilton
They plead latitude
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hand the map of scars
back
folded in your lap
at crossing
the green skin
was a prayer
you made with your feet
and stayed there.
Judge’s comments
I was drawn to the category, Borders and Boundaries, because it is a subject that I ponder often and I often have lived in between places: countries, regions, cultures. These poems didn’t disappoint. The poets explored a lot of ground, figuratively and literally. And it was fun to explore with them. The poems that really stuck with me were those that took me someplace. Third place “Something There Is” just wouldn’t let go and had me caught between perfect clarity and then that thing you see from the corner of your eye.
—M. E. Hope
Kim Hamilton has published in Spillway, Switched-On Gutenberg, DMQ Review, and Raven Chronicles. In 2014, her collaboration with artist Carolyn Krieg, Visitation, was published. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Kim Hamilton holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and writes, edits and teaches poetry in Southern Oregon.