Dear MOM,
As you know, I'm on the selection committee for Idaho's Book of the Year award. I just thought you'd like to know that as I was just about to compose a poem about the 18th letter of the alphabet for my siblings, an email from the committee came through and my brain took a detour into Libraryish poetical musings. So, if you know these obscure books, which of course YOU do, you'll know who won first prize and honorable mention. I'll have to write the other poem another time.

Oh shall we embrace the inevitable
and arrive at consensus on fire?

Our thoughtfully worded analyses fly
through the Idaho cyberspace wires.

Debating profundity, judging the prose
to consider works, fiction and non.

We've read Ferrell Swan's journey with the coyotes,
And heard Isaac Moses yarn on.

The others have merit, no doubt about that
But we must agree to decide

Which Idaho book gets the treasured award
By our choice all the state must abide!