This selection, chosen by guest editor john compton, is from Nighttime by Marina Hope Wilson (Cooper Dillon Books 2024).
Shelter
The birds have flown away.
The sky tips with the weight
of their wings turning all at once.
My father’s bones are the beams of a house—
Once someone said you could live there,
turn the lights down, light a fire.
Marina Hope Wilson is the author of the chapbook, Nighttime (Cooper Dillon Books, 2024). Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, $, trampset, Stirring, Bicoastal Review, and SWWIM Every Day. Marina is a 2024-25 Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Brown-Handler Artist-in-Residence. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, stepdaughter, and two cats, and she makes her living as a speech-language therapist. 
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