Two Poems by Daye Phillippo (poetry, ’14)

An excerpt from “Soon, Spring,” one of two poems by Daye Phillippo (poetry, ’14) published at Mom Egg Review:

SOON, SPRING

Snow is falling softly past the windows, no wind to drive it,
so the flakes take their time, turning, some rising a bit again

like the clouds of gnats one sees stirring by the roadside in fall.
Mother Goose preening her feathers, my father used to say

of snow like this, snow intending no harm, not blinding drivers
or the woman walking out to her mailbox on its leaning post

by the gravel road. Motherly snow, gently blanketing the garden
and house, fences and fenceposts, giving the mailbox a little

peaked cap. Blanketing also, one supposes, the white-tailed deer
we haven’t seen by the white pines for days now. Herd of nine

at last count, frisky among the fragrant, soft-needled branches,
then loping off downhill to the creek, trail into the deep woods […continue reading here]