Fourth Place: Bandit by Andrew Jarvis

Heron, it is befriending dawn

in spring, with a great blue body

and wings, angled, to pierce winter,

where rays of sun defrost the forms

of fishers casting braided lines

into trove of bountiful bass,

before it strikes, stealing a feast

from the foolish, then flies away.

Andrew’s Bio

Andrew Jarvis is the author of The Strait, Landslide and Blood Moon. His poems have appeared in Cottonwood, Measure, Valparaiso Poetry Review and others. He holds high honors from the Nautilus, INDIE Book of the Year, and NextGen Indie Book Awards. Andrew holds an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and lives in Orlando, Florida.