Daybreak Through the Cottage Window
“And so it begins: this greige gleam and economy, / this singular, smooth, silent, sweep. // A pearled page turning in a tome of darkness.”
Virginia Boudreau is a retired teacher living on the south west coast of Nova Scotia, Canada where she can often be found on a beach. Her poetry and prose have appeared in a wide variety of international literary magazines and anthologies, both in-print and on-line. Most recent work has been published in metafore, Flare Flagler Review, Querty, Second Storey, and The Sonder Review. More is upcoming in TNQ, Cricket, and The New York Times (Solver’s Column). She is currently in the process of preparing her first poetry manuscript, twenty years later than anticipated.
“And so it begins: this greige gleam and economy, / this singular, smooth, silent, sweep. // A pearled page turning in a tome of darkness.”