Patricia J. Machmiller — Touchstone Award Winner
Patricia J. Machmiller’s poem
squash blossoms
the ribbon on her dress
unraveling
was a winner of a Touchstone Individual Poem Award for the best haiku published 2015. It first appeared in Frogpond 38:2.
See the complete list of winners of both Individual Poem Awards and Distinguished Books Awards in the Touchstone Archives.
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squash blossoms
the ribbon on her dress
unraveling
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Patricia J. Machmiller
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Yes, squash blossoms have become very trendy in cuisine, so I guess there is a senryu aspect underlying the need to impress and one little detail unravelling, or symbolic of a few things unravelling: http://www.thekitchn.com/five-ways-to-eat-squash-blosso-87564
Perhaps one of the most famous dinner party plays (and put onto television):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail%27s_Party#Plot
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Certainly a lot of undercurrent, as there always are in certain apparently innocent home parties.
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Alan
Keep coming back to this one. Very…quietly… brilliant…which is why it won an award.
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Alan