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By D. GilsonAdded: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 / Gilson's poem is the Second Place Winner of the 2015 Split This Rock Annual Poetry Contest, generously adjudicated by Natalie Diaz.The honeysuckle dew slick
& sweet this morning& only an empty Wendy's cup
thrown to ditch& the truck passing
(& it is almost alwaysa truck) slows just
to roll downthe window & O
I wish they could smellthis & O I wish
I could quitthem driving
so fast & missingthis honeysuckle, so dew-
sweet this morning.
D. Gilson is the author of I Will Say This Exactly One Time: Essays (Sibling Rivalry, 2015); Crush (Punctum Books, 2014), with Will Stockton; Brit Lit (Sibling Rivalry, 2013); and Catch & Release (2012), winner of the Robin Becker Prize. He is Assistant Professor of English at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and his work has appeared in PANK, The Indiana Review, The Rumpus, and as a notable essay in Best American Essays.