They stood me up at dawn
For conclusions mistakenly drawn
Their muzzles were jammed
Fired back at the damned
They all died but I walked off and lived on
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Gerard DiLeo
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Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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