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Anchorage Press > News > You Haiku 2009 - The winners
About 300 poems were submitted for the 2009 You Haiku edition. Collectively they say a bit about Anchorage Press readers, maybe something about Alaskans as a whole. You love blueberries. Aluminum foil helps you sleep during summer. Traffic and tourists annoy you. Bears frighten you, or at least earn your prudent respect. Some recent political scandals disappoint, but don't surprise you. Ted Stevens remains heroic, albeit tarnished, in your eyes. The poems made us wonder if this sample--about 70 writers willing to pare their thoughts to 17 syllables--is as good as any window onto Alaskan thought as one could find....
Unfortunately, they publish only a few.
The bear out back
Winner: Beth Johnson
We had a meeting
Your homes are too close and we
Hate your yappy dogs
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Alumnium foil...
Please tell me how it could cure
My insomnia!
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Gently hang the foil
over all the windows, and
Good night and good luck
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Lovely.
The haikus, not the foil, which must make for glare at every turn.
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