_________First Place__________


Hurricane warning --
the boy boards up the windows
of the doghouse

Charles Trumbull

 ________Second Place________


Eye of the hurricane;
breaking the silence
a sea bird's call.

Sue

 _________Third Place_________
    

hurricane winds
a child's beachball
bobs on the lake

Joann

_________Below Third Place________

still aglow
in the hurricane's eye
my small candle

Maleti (Mary Lee McClure)

hurricane watch
leaning left
the chrysanthemums

Jaloe

hurricane - 
relatives arrive
from the coast

elsie

then it comes
crashing through the stillness
- hurricane

doris kasson

below the typhoon
a motionless octopus
waits for its prey

DeVar

her white picket fence
after the typhoon has passed
. . . only the gate left

dennis h dutton

hurricane 
the bay 
is the ocean

-willard

hurricane warning--
drinking intensifies 
at the marina

Thom Williams

hurricane 
stirring the sea
this and that way

Pam

hurricane's eye -
on both sides of the street
shopkeepers hammering

Ferris

hurricane hurling
wild cherries to the ground
seed for winter mice

joy
  

boarding up
to the siren's wail -
hurricane alert

john.

hurricane of leaves
bolting down the country road
stampede out of sight

Elaine Cleveland

hiding
in a hurricane's eye
radio static

copyright 8-26-1999 by Wendy C. Bialek

an elephants trunk
tossing up peanuts -
a hurricane

Max Verhart 
  

typhoon in my belly
found my great love
in the shiki list -

emile molhuysen

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