(AGAINST SILENCE)
In every direction...

PLOT
The sad story...

HISTORICAL EPISODE
two feet of clay...

NINE SIGNATURES
In your head, slender curlicues of blood...

LIFE
no one survives it...

10/11
creeping naked around a church...

MYSTERY
I found the murdered man's ______ in my hand...

THEFT OF A LINE FROM STRAND
Torment of love--...

STOP MY EARS
in the middle of the night...

HIDING
in the forest...

SECRECY
A long time till dawn...

UNLUCKY MOON
the tin fear...

SEARCHING
Broken sky, light rain...

BLANK OF BLANKS
no hand can hold...

FALLING
A fine grace of falling is in the leaves...

AT DAWN
Darkness breaks away from...

AT THE PLACE
Standing where something died...

STRANGE FISHING
Blameless...

BEING DEAD
it can't kill you...

JUDAS IS IN HELL
our child-life with its magical intents...

GETTING PEACE
I got inside...

LISTENING TO THE DEAD
you have it all your way...

HEAVEN
is this what it means...

Dear Eric,

This is to notify you that--but what's the use? You with your sloppy 
ways have already tossed this where you think it belongs, in the garbage 
with the tuna can torn open in a state of hunger. And down there, in the 
trashbag, underneath the coffee grounds and next to that despised bill, 
ignored like the used Kleenex or the junk mail, this letter will sit 
till doomsday or the trash goes out.

Open me. Rip my pasted lip wide. Think twice about dumping every piece of 
mail today with the eggshells, the used-up wine bottles, the spoiled meat 
and the bones.

This is to notify you that another chance is gone. What you would have 
gotten you'll never know.

The Awards Committee