[Lois Elaine Heckman]

#1. Requited Love
#2. Childhood
#3. Last Dance

This was my first Eratosphere Bake-Off, and it was a fantastic eye-opener, with so much to admire and so much to learn (even from the polemics). A big "thanks!" to Gail and Cathy for all their hard work and enthusiasm.

[Tim Murphy]

Last Dance
Requited Love

[Misty Roper]

#1. Baby & Bathwater
#2. Calypso
#3. Two Lindens

[Maryann Corbett]

1: Requited Love
2: Last Dance
3: Two Lindens

I know there's no fourth place, but I'd still like to give it to Childhood, since I can't award a tie for third.

Some further thoughts: Although I had reservations about this year's rule changes, I have to say that it's been a pleasure not to recognize or be able to google the great majority of the poems. It's also been a pleasure not to have my own poems in the mix and to be undistracted from simply thinking and talking, candidly, about the poems posted. Thanks again to Cathy, Gail, and Alex for their work.

If my candor has rubbed anyone the wrong way, especially any poet who might be new here, please pardon me and stick around. Do let us know where and how we've read you well or badly.

[Michael Follow]

3 points for your #1 pick: Requited Love (#6)
2 points for your #2 pick: The Baby and the Bathwater (#8)
1 point for your #3 pick: Last Dance (#9)

[Pedro Poitevin]

1. Requited Love.
2. Baby & Bathwater.
3. Last Dance.

[William Conelly]

Mower's Song -- #1
Last Dance -- #2
Requited Love -- #3

[Mary McLean]

1. Requited Love
2. Two Lindens
3. Calypso

[Michael Cantor]

1 - Requited Love
2 - Childhood
3 - Last Dance

[Latorial Faison]

1st: POEM #6 "Requited Love"
2nd: POEM #5 "Mower's Song"
3rd: POEM #7 "Film Noir"