{"id":39211,"date":"2025-07-17T18:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=39211"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:44:55","slug":"winner-of-the-willow-springs-surrealist-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/winner-of-the-willow-springs-surrealist-poetry-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of the Willow Springs Surrealist Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Found in\u00a0<\/strong>Willow Springs 95<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Upon Reading \u0160alamun’s Opera Buffa<\/em>, The Trees Outside My Window Reel and Rhumba” by Ronda Piszk Broatch<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Toma\u017e tells me, I’m wrapped in your stole!<\/em> I tell him
your exclamation points drop like wind-snapped limbs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A moon and a pillow described grief, similarly.
The wind grew fifty-some miles per hour, whistlingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toma\u017e’s translator says (a) poem is all flung-ness,<\/em>
spun-ness, a value-neutral sublimation of all rec-<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ordered matter into seraphic process.<\/em> Dust encrusts
the red porcelain roses atop my ancestor’s ring box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porcelain, Paul Celan. Toma\u017e’s translator likens
the man to an amalgam of petuntse and kaolin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something’s left confused\/incomplete\/out in the rain.
Who comes back? Who gives in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ask Toma\u017e: what would you pick up, a bomb<\/em>
or a dandelion?<\/em> He prefers to sit between his dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The translator mourns the poet’s passing, saying
Hell on earth would be better served by opera seria.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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