“Blue Between Owls” by Daye Phillippo (Poetry ’14)
Poetry alum Daye Phillippo has a new poetry collection, Blue Between Owls, out from Codhill Press. Read an excerpt below.
Blue Chore Coat
I have learned to love turning a bar of soap
and the calendar’s empty pages in my hands,
soft lather that soothes, feels like ritual, lifts away
things I don’t need. I have learned to love
the chickens’ ways, the hesitating way they walk
like brides down an aisle, their contented churks
and startled squawks, the way one gentle hen
in the nesting box raises up to let me collect
the eggs she’s been warming beneath her breast,
