2 March 2004 | Vol. 4, No. 1
Visiting Hours
A pattern of stars
pressed on the wind-
shield of cars below.
Days we spend in shifts,
gaze out the window
onto drifts of snow.
As streets fill with plows
plying back the cold layer,
the city aglow in its coma,
we watch from the room
the world's slow thaw
like your heart, forever
threatening to bloom.
About the author:
Jon Pineda was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. A graduate of James Madison University, he studied in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University and has received a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. His poetry has appeared in the Literary Review, Many Mountains Moving, the Asian Pacific American Journal, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, and other publications. For further information, visit his website at www.jonpineda.com.
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