A cold afternoon
By the Potomac River
Yellow butterflies
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A cold afternoon
By the Potomac River
Yellow butterflies
A pond full of mud
Above the water’s surface
The lotus flower
This is a list of some of the free writing contests that I am considering entering in 2020:
The César Egido Serrano Flash Fiction Competition
The Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
St. Martin’s Minotaur/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition
Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry
Little Tokyo Historical Society
Binghamton University Book Awards
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Nelson Algren Short Story Award
The Sunday Times Short Story Award
In Kamakura
Tourists and locals spinning
The big prayer wheel
Above the dark sky
A great firmament of stars
And the brightest one
In the hot desert
The time does not seem to fear
The great tree of life
Under the dark sky
Splashing in the wavy bay
The pink flamingos
The earth is shaking
In this rainy Tokyo
I am standing still
A dove on a rail
A hot summer afternoon
The cool deep blue pool
The colorful pirate ship
Sails on Lake Ashi
The snow-covered hills