Jason Tandon

author of four collections of poetry, winner of the 2006 St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press; his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, North American Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Esquire, AGNI Online, and many other publications; featured on Verse Daily and on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac; a Senior Lecturer in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University

New Year’s Day

All afternoon the snow has been falling in flakes the size of silver dollars, falling so slowly I can see the crystalized patterns of their intricate symmetry.

It piles on the shed roof and against the chain-link, windshield wipers like arms shot up in surrender.

When it thins to a flurry I will pull on my boots as will we all on this block, emerging like extras in the opening number to heave and toss in rhythm.

from The Actual World by Jason Tandon (Black Lawrence Press)