Coin Toss
Six hundred entries!
Oh, my word!
Nevertheless, we had agreed
to judge this contest.
I asked him to read each
and choose his top twenty.
I did the same, placing a star
in the top right corner
of each choice.
We sat to compare. We agreed
on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.
We agreed on 1st HM and 2nd HM.
Though we wrangled, each
defending stated opinions,
but could not agree on who
would take last place.
Third Honorable Mention
in the Annual Wyoming State
Poetry Contest of 2014,
won by ‘luck of the draw.’
We flipped a coin.
Copyright © Cona Adams | Year Posted 2016
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