Winds wrap snow

round our house
this winter night

a white ribbon

we will not
see when morning

sun melts it.

Philip Vassallo’s nonfiction, poems, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Sewanee Review, Chaminade Literary Review, Southern Ocean Review, and other publications. He received a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, and his plays have been produced throughout the United States. He is the author of three books on work-related writing: The Art of On-the-Job Writing, The Art of Email Writing, and How to Write Fast Under Pressure.