Wilderness Interface Zone

In one of my favorite haunts, Crossfire Canyon, the creek is flooding as at the lake upstream water jets from the dam’s spillway for the first time ever.   The spring runoff is not even halfway through as a record snowpack melts from the Abajo Mountains upstream and runs down into the desert.

But here at WIZ, our nearly six-week flow of sparkling verse has finished.  The last poems have posted, and voting to decide which one wins the Spring Poetry Runoff contest will begin Monday, May 3rd,  and run through Friday, May 7th.  Poets, please come back and vote, and let your friends and family members know about the voting, too.

I’d like the thank–happily, exuberantly–all the poets who contributed to the Spring Poetry Runoff not only for participating beautifully but also for exceeding my expectations for the number of poems submitted.    There really was a spectacular turnout, and I’m in awe of the quality of the poems.  Very well done, folks.

The poll to determine the winner of the Spring Poetry Runoff Popular Poem Award will close Friday. May 7, but winners of both the popular vote and the Admin Award will be announced Monday, May 10th.   So keep an eye on WIZ to see how matters settle out.  Also, clean off your reading glasses.  Twenty-one poems qualified for the voting, any one of which can cause you to linger.   Another matter to consider: Each voter will be able to vote for his or her three favorite poems!

Again, good work, participants.  Stay tuned.