Hilary Sallick

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Not long ago  our thoughts
were full of snow  looming nearing
then massing slowly
in the freeze   coating
everything with its strange
substance  lovely clean  bringing out
contrasts and revealing
tracks;  and now
the snow is almost gone  the
warming nears    and it
is what we speak of
the weather to come and
renew us again  as the snow did
in its way;
             and under the weather’s
turning   there’s the dread   
that stays   as if we’re children still
or helpless passengers    as if we’re waiting
for a rescue we know
won’t come

Hilary Sallick is the author of Love is a Shore (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023), a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award; and Asking the Form (Cervena Barva Press, 2020). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in SoFloPoJo; Pensive; iamb: poetry seen and heard; Thimble; Action, Spectacle; Halfway Down the Stairs; Permafrost; Potomac Review; Notre Dame Review; and elsewhere. A teacher with a longtime focus on adult literacy, she lives in Somerville, MA. (www.hilarysallick.com)