The prizewinning and commended poems of the Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2024, selected by Aaron Poochigian, are published in this special issue of The Passionfruit Review.
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The spiced \u00a0 \u00a0 stock simmers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and smokes:\nwilts cut \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 carrots,"},{"id":2034,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/lightning-map-by-julie-shulman\/","name":"lightning-map-by-julie-shulman","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Lightning Map' by Julie Shulman","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:41:24","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:41:26","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:41:26","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":36},"status":"publish","excerpt":"When lightning tumbles to earth\nthe flash we see is its fanatic kinetic\nenergy hurling itself back up to the sky.\nThe strike is the map of an apple tree,\npointing its bone fingers\nat that which it loves,"},{"id":1998,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/provincetown-by-deig-sullivan\/","name":"provincetown-by-deig-sullivan","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Provincetown' by Deig Sullivan","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:40:59","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:41:01","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:41:01","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":33},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The night is a tide\nthat pulls young men\ninto the Provincetown streets\n\nafter the drag queen\ntea parties\nthe sunburns\nafter the dinners\nthe wine"},{"id":2001,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/glass-house-by-tom-mclaughlin\/","name":"glass-house-by-tom-mclaughlin","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Glass House' by Tom McLaughlin","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:40:16","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:40:18","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:40:18","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":42},"status":"publish","excerpt":"This house has no need for doors or windows:\nthe stranger\u2019s gaze moves through it as the wind\nrinsing out soft furnishings and memory,\nrazing walls and leaving only silence."},{"id":2003,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/letter-by-lisabelle-tay\/","name":"letter-by-lisabelle-tay","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Letter' by Lisabelle Tay","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:39:55","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:39:57","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:39:57","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":23},"status":"publish","excerpt":"You, did you ever live like a wolf? Were you ever late to the hunt because you could afford it, laugh through winter without conciliation? Time settles differently on predator and prey. We cannot all be gradual and luxurious. Some of us flee examination because the future is already here, no one to intervene; in another life joy is probable."},{"id":2026,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/sprig-just-so-by-daniel-rabuzzi\/","name":"sprig-just-so-by-daniel-rabuzzi","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Sprig, just so' by Daniel Rabuzzi","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:39:32","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:39:33","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:39:33","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":21},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The rosemary you put on the corner of the porch\nleans out\npatiently\nfor the sun,\n\nwhose light we'll taste together\nin the winter,"},{"id":2029,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/figures-in-bathroom-interior-by-rachael-brown\/","name":"figures-in-bathroom-interior-by-rachael-brown","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Figures in Bathroom Interior' by Rachael Brown","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:39:07","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:39:09","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:39:09","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":46},"status":"publish","excerpt":"When lightning tumbles to earth\nthe flash we see is its fanatic kinetic\nenergy hurling itself back up to the sky.\nThe strike is the map of an apple tree,\npointing its bone fingers\nat that which it loves,"},{"id":2005,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/we-reap-by-damen-obrien\/","name":"we-reap-by-damen-obrien","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'We Reap' by Damen O'Brien","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:38:33","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:38:35","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:38:35","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":37},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Perhaps we can\u2019t love more than one thing well.\nAll day that noisy beast, his mower, blows.\nHe drags it across the green, consigns to hell\na clump of crab grass. How constantly it grows,"},{"id":2007,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/sissinghurst-by-tom-mclaughlin\/","name":"sissinghurst-by-tom-mclaughlin","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Sissinghurst' by Tom McLaughlin","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:33:54","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:33:56","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:33:56","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":56},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Let us cram with flowers each threatened rift\nin the garden we have made together:\ncatastrophe can be a kind of gift.\n\nOur marriage is a ship which we let drift\nwith no thought of ever dropping anchor.\nLet us cram with flowers each threatened rift."},{"id":2010,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/caravan-site-by-nicole-janz\/","name":"caravan-site-by-nicole-janz","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Caravan Site' by Nicole Janz","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:33:28","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:33:30","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:33:30","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":51},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Those cubed houses in Rotterdam with concrete\u00a0trunks, each of them holding in place a tipped dice. Built like a forest, but they never did look like a forest"},{"id":2013,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/lichen-poem-by-king-llanza\/","name":"lichen-poem-by-king-llanza","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Lichen Poem' by King Llanza","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:32:33","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:32:35","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:32:35","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":54},"status":"publish","excerpt":"I have decided to be multiple things at once.\nTo eat only air as rocks do (glancing at grains\nof sand swept away on scorching winds),\nas trees do (fighting for water in the forest\namongst other trees), as a father's love\nwould do (in the tool shed, an act of repairing):"},{"id":2015,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/june-by-joe-caldwell\/","name":"june-by-joe-caldwell","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'June' by Joe Caldwell","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:31:44","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:31:46","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:31:46","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":32},"status":"publish","excerpt":"This midnight, I climb into bed\nbeside my wife, feel the heat of her body.\n\nShe shifts, then settles.\u00a0 In the blue dark\nI lie under only a sheet,\n\nfeel the air soften as I wait\nfor the tide of sleep to carry me over"},{"id":2018,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/after-seeing-nelsons-hms-victory-by-s-cristine\/","name":"after-seeing-nelsons-hms-victory-by-s-cristine","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'After Seeing Nelson's HMS Victory' by S. Cristine","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:31:05","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:31:07","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:31:07","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":55},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Lately I have been in the habit of opening\nevery door twice. If it\u2019s a good day\nI\u2019ll find the lost thing I\u2019ve been looking for\non the first try. And if it\u2019s a bad day"},{"id":2023,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/adhesion-by-daniel-rabuzzi\/","name":"adhesion-by-daniel-rabuzzi","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Adhesion' by Daniel Rabuzzi","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:30:21","modifiedDate":"2024-11-27 11:30:23","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-27 11:30:23","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/ppp24\/\" rel=\"category tag\">PPP24<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":34},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Binding: tremors held in lacquer, mouth oh'ing forever,\nthe throat's catch-moan archived with fervor,\nthe shout interior, the sigh repeated yet unfinished.\n\nComfrey, ash, and clove, accents of passion,\nthe scent alloyed by the heat-wake of the diver's plunge,\na thick, raw splice of joy, immobile in the glue,\ntung-oil and egg-white,\nwrapped in the skin of a fish for all seasons."}]
