EDIBLE AUSTIN CHICKEN-AND-EGG HAIKU WINNERS
Congratulations to the winners of our first Edible Austin Haiku Contest. Our blind judging was done by Edible Austin editor and poet Kim Lane. Because two of the haiku submitted by our first-place winner placed first and second, we were able to bestow our third-place award upon our fourth-place poet. Chicken art courtesy of Stephanie Hunter's private collection.
 First place: Carrie Kenny
Prize: Dinner for two at Fabi + Rosi
Why cross? What came first?
Such big questions you carry
Oh, little chicken.
Egg, essential whole
Like Humpty Dumpty you crack
Undone by breakfast.
 Second place: Katie Pudhorodsky
Prize: Lunch for two at Cipollina
Eggs perfect in shape
Never seen a blue so rich
Hidden in the hay
Third place: Toni Migliavacca
Prize: Subscription to Edible Austin
Sun is coming up
Chickens call, “Let us out, out !”
The day is starting.
Additional thanks to the following for submitting their work:
A promise, a hope
Downy chickies, budding earth
Another year’s Spring.
—Rowena Fengel
Feathers fluffed to warm
Baby chick pecks to freedom
Bwuuck and peep love song.
—Rowena Fengel
They taste so sweet
When picked at luscious peak
Ripe, red strawberries
—Chris Sallee
By full-grown chicken,
Egg reproduces its self
Throughout all seasons.
—Clif Ladd
Butter and mushrooms
Mother daughter reunion
A chicken omelette
—Sally Jackson
Springtime comes early
Hawks circle above, hungry,
Tucked in the coop, safe.
—Toni Migliavacca
Chicks deep in the grass
Like a game of hide and seek
They'll play until dark
—Katie Pudhorodsky
Big birds strutting by
Looking for some bugs for lunch
surprise today - worms!
—Katie Pudhorodsky
Spring brings: baby chicks,
new life from trees, earth, animals.
God’s promises kept.
—Rowena Fengel
Don't eat my baby,
Eat me instead. Roast my flesh!
Organic. Cage-free.
—Matt Casserly
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