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Hilary Sallick is the author of two full-length poetry collections, love is a shore (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023) and Asking the Form (Cervena Barva Press, 2020). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Permafrost, Jet Fuel Review, Notre Dame Review, Ibbetson Street, Poetry Porch, and other journals. A teacher with a longtime focus on adult literacy, she serves on the Board of the New England Poetry Club. She lives and works in Somerville. (www.hilarysallick.com)

A poem from love is a shore:

Hilary Sallick

September

Later we went to the beach
almost sunset the Sound
dark and lush and foamy
Da and I walked step by step
through the splash  
cold wind blowing   then
into the water’s shelter we swam   
the waves sloshing over us
Mom Verna and Abe stood shivering
on the shore
and those few who’d come for the day
were packing up to go home
A flock of gulls perched in rows
facing the water   intent as if receiving
solemn news  
Then we came out
dripping and laughing
and wrapped towels
around ourselves

 — Hilary Sallick

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