Daye Phillippo

dayephotoDaye Phillippo is a graduate of Purdue University and Warren Wilson MFA for Writers. She is the recipient of The Elizabeth George Grant and a Mortarboard Fellowship for poetry. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in Natural Bridge, The Comstock Review, The Fourth River, North Central Review, Cider Press Review, Shenandoah and others. She lives in a creaky, old farmhouse on twenty rural acres in Indiana with her husband and their youngest son.

Wild Turkeys

  The mind is an enchanting thing – Marianne Moore That morning, eleven wild turkeys, roaming over the yard and garden in unison the way my imagination roams, pecking up the unlikely. The unlikely blue of the bird’s heads and … Continue reading