“Edge Effect” by Daye Phillippo (poetry, ’14)

An excerpt from “Edge Effect” by Daye Phillippo (poetry, ’14) published at the Valparaiso Poetry Review:

EDGE EFFECT

First day of summer, overcast morning after rain

all night. Lights on in every room. The dripping woods

lean close to the house, so this lamplit room

becomes a room inside a room of trees and weeds,

their leaves, a multitude of shapes and shades of green

and the sky, a close gray ceiling heavy with rain.

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