When we swam today there was darkness growing and thunder in the distance Shivering we descended the steps to the shore We’ll be out of the wind once we’re in the water Da said with a smile As always he was first He waded in then turned and let himself without hesitation sink backward […]
Hilary Sallick
Hilary Sallick is the author of Love is a Shore (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023), long-listed for the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award; and Asking the Form (Cervena Barva Press, 2020). Her poems appear in Action, Spectacle; Halfway Down the Stairs; Permafrost; Potomac Review; Notre Dame Review; and elsewhere. She served as vice-president of the New England Poetry Club from 2016 through 2024. A teacher with a longtime focus on adult literacy, she lives in Somerville, MA. (www.hilarysallick.com)
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A soft rain I told you very fine with chill droplets as I walked home past the ballfields the traffic the late roses and fruits dangling here and there from branches October rain I said to you and all the parts of the day come and gone I wanted to tell […]