2nd Place Winner of the Poetry Contest: Hope - Meghan Adler

Hope seeps through the cracks.

Faith on the sidewalk

at East 79th and York.

I watch the brief biography

of a stranger.

The smallest gesture

of humankind.

A found quarter

on the pavement.

He uses it to feed

another stranger’s meter.

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Meghan Adler's poems appear on an Eric Kent wine bottle, in anthologies, Illuminations and A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year, and in the following literary journals: California Quarterly, Gastronomica, The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, The North American Review, and Rattle. Meghan’s first book of poetry, Pomegranate was recently published with Main Street Rag Press.