jacob griffin hall / 1st place editors' choice prize in poetry
At Providence Canyon, Waiting For Heaven To Move Me
Suppose the canyon isn’t a wound
and standing together, projecting our shadows
over the striated walls, dusk calls for a moment,
calls to us in the moment
to need the landscape’s histories
like a child needs the evidence
that gives them power.
Suppose for hours we imagine the erosive runoff—
farm and soft clay and the clouds above
blown apart in the wind,
passing the sulfur-tinged smokestacks
as you sink your teeth into an apple
and watch a chisel plow
comb the lower fields.
Jacob Griffin Hall is a poet from outside of Atlanta, GA. A former poetry editor for the Missouri Review, he lives and teaches English in Columbia, MO. His first collection of poetry, Burial Machine, won the 2021 Backlash Best Book Award and is available with Backlash Press. His writing has appeared in the Missouri Review, 32 Poems, New Ohio Review, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere.
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