“Those First Days” by Fay Dillof (poetry ’15)
An excerpt from “Those First Days” by Fay Dillof (poetry ’15), published by Frontier Poetry.
Those First Days
Those first days, crows—
more than I’d ever seen, hundreds—cawed,
circling the ice-shocked trees, while we ate
small blue pills to sleep and waited
for the thaw. The world, from inside his coat,
shimmered. A field of snow—the clouds.
