Everyone's a Winner
We’re drawn from the void
like raffle tickets: Little door
on a big drum opens, God
reaches in, fingers fumbling, face
turned away, eyes closed.
—John Johnson, Petaluma, CA
John Johnson’s poems have appeared in BOXCAR Poetry Review, Chaparral, The Comstock Review, and DMQ Review. A collection of his poems has recently won an award in the Sebastopol Center for the Arts "Bibliophoria Poetry Contest." He lives in Petaluma, California.