In this all-poetry issue, Carson Colenbaugh relishes the relationship between life and the taking of life in a suite of poems titled “Planting Winter Gardens.” Suzette Clark Bradshaw will make your mouth water in four poems that sizzle in their pain and delight including “A Murder for Jesus.” And Cathryn Essinger celebrates the patterns and connections that frame our lives, both real and imagined, in four poems including “The Present Tense.”