(214 = 12) would indicate that the poem above received two 3-point votes, one 2-point vote, and four 1-point votes.

September 2002 Kukai Results
Kigo Theme: Nut	Free Format Theme: Cooler
First Place - 12 points almost bedtime ... one last walnut shell ignites the embers sheila windsor (036-12) Second Place -- 11 points divorce papers I pick the nuts out of the waldorf salad Carmel C. Lively (132-11) Third Place -- 10 points night clouds-- the blind man plucks an acorn from his tin cup Kathy Lippard Cobb 026-10 Fourth Place -- 9 points peanut brittle yellow leaves crunch beneath my boots Darrell Byrd (041-9) Fifth Place -- 8 points on the train - watching her lick salt from the cashew Carol Raisfeld (210-8) falling chestnuts -- the kitten jumps into my lap hortensia anderson (121-8) Sixth Place -- 7 points cold autumn night the street vendor hands me a roasted chestnut Sue (023-7) Seventh Place -- 6 points piñon harvest village elders look younger Ghost Cat (030-6) Eighth Place -- 4 points among the tools on the carpenter's bench a coconut Tore Sverredal (012-4) Ninth Place -- 3 points 11 o'clock break fragrance of hazelnuts in perking coffee Ellen Compton (011-3) above the mist walnuts have fallen in the path Daniel (100-3) garage attic a hen mallard decoy sits on nest of acorns Edward (011-3) Sunday afternoon-- we crack black walnuts for homemade fudge Billie Wilson (011-3) softly dripping trees a rat finds a peanut among the shells Johannes Manjrekar (011-3) pecan lover’s yard - a bountiful crop of squirrels Nancy Smith (011-3) a bowl of peanuts - my daughter leaves a trail of freshly cracked shells Deborah P. Kolodji (011-3) migraine aura with each cracking walnut the pain implodes roberta beary (011-3) autumn chill the chestnut seller scoops coal onto his stove Angèle Lux (011-3)	First Place -- 20 points cooler days a fallen leaf twists on a strand of web Sue 254-20 Second Place -- 12 points cooler morning a sparrow huddled against the red light Angèle Lux 230-12 Third Place -- 11 points cooler nights - the curve of your back nestled in mine Carol Raisfeld 027-11 Fourth Place -- 8 points cooler breezes the smell of mothballs on my mackinaw Darrell Byrd 105-8 cooler autumn nights only the basement cricket sings until dawn Edward 032-8 cooler weather my neighbor wears socks with her birkenstocks Carmel C. Lively 032 - 8 Fifth Place -- 7 points cooler days-- cicadas pick up the tempo Ellen Compton 031-7 moonlight brushes the pond -- autumn coolness hortensia anderson 031-7 Sixth Place -- 6 points cooler nights the sound of tree frogs through open windows soji 030-6 journey's end where the towers were a cooler breeze roberta beary 022 - 6 Seventh Place -- 4 points cooler today-- a lawn filled with the red of southbound robins Billie Wilson 101 - 4 at water's edge just me and the gulls days are cooler Gene Williamson 020 - 4 Eighth Place -- 3 points cooler days after the shower ants stream up the tree Johannes Manjrekar 100 - 3 suddenly cooler an old man unwraps his umbrella Tore Sverredal 100 - 3

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