POETRY
Chris Abani Victoria Chang Michael Chitwood Keith Ekiss Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Beth Ann Fennelly Raza Ali Hasan James Hoch Cyan James Julia Johnson Larry Levis Khaled Mattawa Timothy O’Keefe Catherine Pierce Jon Pineda John Poch Austin Segrest Louie Skipper Ron Smith Robert Thomas Joshua Weiner Lesley Wheeler Charles Wright
JON PINEDA
First Snowfall
Snow layered itself over the already dead,
those clumps of tomato plants I’d neglected
from the summer lay crumpled under drifts,
their bones muscled with cold near the shed.
I spoke your name, and it spun there,
our little ghost, spreading open
its arms until they were bare limbs
of trees, my neighbor’s broken fence, this
bright distance between us.
Contributor’s notes Heaven