Heaven Is: A Poem by Halle Hill

Read this poem at Salvation South: “Heaven Is.”

A daughter’s offerings to her mother, from a Blount County corner store.

Halle Hill is the author of Good Women: Stories (Hub City Press, 2023). Her short fiction, essays, and poems have been published in Granta, Joyland, New Limestone Review, Southwest Review, Atlanta Magazine, and Oxford American, among others, and this is her first published poem. She lives and teaches in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.