Franke Varca, First Place winner of Narrative’s Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, earned an MFA in poetry from the Helen Zell Writer’s Program at the University of Michigan and received a Discovery Poetry Prize.



FIRST PLACE WINNER


The Trees Their Axes

by Franke Varca

that the forest no longer exists
doesn’t undo the forest

just as once touching the lake
now dry
can’t undo the ripples
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