THE WARTIME ISSUE Melissa Tuckey   FORSYTHIA WINTER First snap and daffodils nod off they always look so surprised while here in D.C. everything wants to bloom at once a profusion of highway exits and war I want off this crazy interchange forward and back illegal turns and still the land refuses Go ahead open your hand what emptiness will you offer that wild impulse the rain     Melissa Tuckey is an Ohio Arts Council Grant Recipient.  Her poems have been published in DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology, Poet Lore, Gathering of the Tribes, and Southeast Review.  She's a graduate of George Mason University's MFA program, where she teaches writing courses.   Published in Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2006.   To read more by this author: Melissa Tuckey: Split This Rock Issue Melissa Tuckey: Museum Issue