Finalist in the "Trio of Triolets" contest: Judith Pacht

The final finalist in the "Trio of Triolets" contest is Judith Pacht.

Enjoy her take on the form below:

The Year of the Heart (of the House)

The room exposed, the twisted pieces

warm.  The year of the heart of the house

alive but cold, age-bitten, reaches

a room exposed, the twisted pieces

ugly but loved.  Re-creased creases   

in reread books.  A grieving mouse,

his room exposed.  The twisted pieces

warm, this year of the heart of the house.

From the table’s secret parts,

the room eviscerated now,

the homeless mouse bewildered starts

(from the table’s secret parts)

to build another home, his heart

still willing, his head confused asks how

from the table’s secret parts,

the room eviscerated now.

I know that mouse too well.  Somehow  

the yellowed ugly wallboard’s loved.

Its past has passed.  Light strikes the now.          

I know that mouse too well.  Somehow

a bird’s flown in.  Her brooding eye allows    

a kind of inside sight.  A dove.

I know that mouse too well.   Somehow    

the yellowed ugly wallboard’s loved.

Bio: Judith Pacht’s Summer Hunger (Tebot Bach), won the 2011 PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry.  Her chapbooks, User’s Guide and St. Louis Suite (Finishing Line Press) were published in 2009 and 2010.   Her first chapbook and poetry collection, Falcon), was published in 2004.