Hilary Sallick

LOVE IS A SHORE

It needs shoring up     forms
of love have ways of
shaping and reshaping     being
shaped and reshaped
waves of love
upon rock of love     grains of
love    like sand    like salt
body of love
     How strange to be
at once a fragment and
a whole
There’s no sense in this     no logic
here   upon this shore

Hilary Sallick is the author of Asking the Form (Cervena Barva Press, 2020) and Winter Roses (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her poems appeared recently or are forthcoming in Pangyrus, Mom Egg Review, Lily Poetry Review, The Poetry Porch, Ibbetson Street, and other publications. She teaches reading and writing to adult learners in Somerville, Massachusetts, and she is vice-president of the New England Poetry Club. To learn more, go to hilarysallick.com.