Erin Wilson

Axiom for a Winter’s Walk

 
The one thing better than red pine coated on one side by blowing snow
is birch coated on one side by blowing snow.

The one thing better than birch coated on one side by blowing snow
is red pine coated on one side by blowing snow.

Erin Wilson's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in december magazine, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily,and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her first collection is At Home with Disquiet; her second, Blue, is about depression, grief and the transformative power of art. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty territory in Northern Ontario, Canada.