First Place Winner: Jenna Butler   Kerouac   his family heaved a sigh of relief the day he hopped a train and disappeared from their lives (at least until the following Christmas)   under the tress in the woodlot his meditation place grew over   threaded with wild blue flax they moxed it under in September for hay   never a postcard although once a slip of paper with lines from Han Shen which his mother pretended to understand justifying its place on the mantel   out in the Arizona night home    a thousand acres of desert sand shot through with shadows the Mexicali girls brought port and danced unafraid by the tracks   woke to his absence and the dawn cinders of the Express   watched the slow sunlight enter the imprint of his body and obliterate his passing Back to July/04 Winners Home