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I Am All You've Got: Holly Day

Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who teaches needlepoint classes for the Minneapolis school district and writing classes at The Loft Literary Center. Her poetry has recently appeared in Borderlands, Slant, and The Midwest Quarterly, and she is the 2011 recipient of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her most recent published books are "Walking Twin Cities" and "Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch."

 

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Come to me with crinkled paper peeling

from perfect bones, white like chocolate

silver foil hanging from the tip of a toe

a freshly-opened cave for a heart.

 

We embrace, tender as puddles filling with poison

eyeless fish and lip-synched "hail mary's"

fingers fasten on the hem of my dress

keep me down.

 

 

 

 


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