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​Featuring Graham Hillard

Snow Day
Graham Hillard
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“How the cold makes us dream!”  —Mary Oliver


Coming in, 
    the children
        are thin candles
    singed at one end, 


their faces
    wicks 
        the world has 
    lit. What is 


delight but this 
    light in their 
        skin?—a flame
    that will not 


be snuffed:
    enough for 
        a morning, 
    a night--


a life. 


Graham Hillard is the author of Wolf Intervals (Cascade Books), from which this poem is excerpted. It was originally published in The Chattahoochee Review.


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