Poetry Contest

Welcome to Burning Bright, a weekly podcast presenting poetry and prose from Passager.
Passager’s annual poetry contest closes April 15. On this episode, poems from past Poetry Contest issues.
We’ll start with Susan Jo Russell’s “Hearing Cards Shuffled on the Train from New York to Boston” from Passager’s 2001 Poetry Contest Issue.
When I was eight, I learned from you
the feel of the stiff edges letting go.
My card-sized hands fumbled, thumbs struggled
for control