Hilary Sallick

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There’s the snow falling

and someone is alone  
sleeping   in the king-

size bed    by the snowy
window

And sometimes I too
want to be alone

but no   
not when it snows  

nor when
the world is coming apart  

Beautiful desolate snow calls
this need for the other

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)