By Jack Stewart
Winter coming on, and the boxwood
Cradles a swath of brown leaves
As if it cannot bear
To let it down.
I gently pull them off, prune
The twigs.
One day, the emptiness will shine.
Jack Stewart was educated at the University of Alabama and Emory University and was a Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His first book, No Reason, was published by the Poeima Poetry Series in 2020, and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The American Literary Review, Nimrod, Image, and others. He currently runs the Talented Writers Program at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
