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Aldrich, Janet M. |
Allan, T. N. |
Allen, M. G. |
Allen, Nick |
Allison, Shane |
Ammonds, Phillip J. |
Anderson, Peter |
Andreopoulos, Elliott |
Anick, Ronald |
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Arkell, Steven |
Ashley, Jonathan |
Aymar, E. A. |
Ayris, Ian |
Babbs, James |
Baber, Bill |
Bagwell, Dennis |
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Baker, Nathan |
Balaz, Joe |
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Barnett, Brian |
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Bauman, Michael |
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Bonehill, L. R. |
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Boran, P. Keith |
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Mellon, Mark |
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Morgan, Bill W. |
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Moss, David Harry |
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Muslim, Kristine Ong |
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Peterson, Rob |
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Petroziello, Brian |
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Pierce, Rob |
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Quinlan, Joseph R. |
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Ray, Paula |
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Renney, Mark |
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Ribas, Tom |
Richardson, Travis |
Richey, John Lunar |
Ridgeway, Kevin |
Ritchie, Bob |
Ritchie, Salvadore |
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Robinson, John D. |
Robinson, Kent |
Rodgers, K. M. |
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Rohrbacher, Chad |
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Rosenberger, Brian |
Rosenblum, Mark |
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Rowley, Aaron |
Ruhlman, Walter |
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Saus, Steven M. |
Savage, Jack |
Sawyer, Mark |
Sayles, Betty J. |
Sayles, Ryan |
Schneeweiss, Jonathan |
Schraeder, E. F. |
Schumejda, Rebecca |
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Scott, Jess C. |
Scribner, Joshua |
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She Writes
Holly Day
to tell me
she’s been admitted to the hospital
that the tumor has spread
from her stomach
to her pancreas
she doesn’t have much time left
we will never get to be
those two crazy eighty-year-olds
we imagined at twenty
living in the Louisiana swamp with a houseful of cats
matching rocking chairs on a porch made of old
railroad ties
we will never find each other
after our husbands die of old age
never have the chance to smile and say
“now we can get on with our lives”
Conversations With
My Father
by Holly Day
there’s a moment of silence and the questions
push their way into my head, was I loved as a child,
was I
the mistake I always felt like, why did I
always feel so alone. it’s a familiar plug
in the lull, and I rush to fill the gaping hole
with more talk about the weather, my job
my own children and the bright things they’re
doing.
I don’t talk about what it was like
stumbling across his neatly-typed suicide notes
coming home to an empty house after school
the nights I spent alone, wondering where my parents
were
wondering if it was all my fault.
The Woman
By Holly Day
I used to wonder if I’d recognize her
if I passed on her on the street
if there would be some spark of recognition
in her eyes
years passed, and I wondered
if I had brothers and sisters
out there, not worrying so much
about the mother who left me
but still curious about family
now I don’t care. Not really.
my mother thought 12 years old
was old enough to walk away from
some archaic concept of adulthood
and if she didn’t need me then
I certainly don’t need her now.
The Man
in the House by Holly Day There could be
corpses buried beneath the mounds of debris and trash in his backyard—the
neighbors can only wildly speculate. There could be a fortune
in knickknacks or baseball cards stacked in dusty
piles on shelves inside the house but no one ever goes in and no one ever
comes out. When a cat
disappears from the neighborhood, children whisper that the man in the house
got it, that he eats cats. Sometimes, though, a cat reappears on its
owner’s doorstep well-fed and clean, and then children whisper that
that is the cat that got away, that the man in the house likes to fatten
them up before he eats them. I thought I saw
him once, opening the front door just wide enough to push aside the dead
leaves accumulating on the stoop but it was so quick it might have been
my imagination.
The Last
Thought Before by Holly Day her friends gathered around her bed and tried to distract her or maybe
frighten her away from the edge of death, threatened to
leave her all alone if she didn’t get better soon. she just looked
past them out the streaky glass of the hospital room window
imagined fields of corn unfolding under the onslaught of rain everything
she was before fading into a black spot on the horizon. there were more inane words of encouragement from
her parents, her lover, a stranger who had seen the accident from the rails of
a highway overpass who described in detail the way the car flipped over
the road divider as though it had been a planned act of agility. she
remembered seeing rabbits scurrying out of the way as she spun out of
control a deer staring, curious, from the safety of a nearby stand of birch
and fir brittle, yellow cornstalks rising in waves to catch the car as it
finally fell.
Laundry
Day by Holly Day I wake to find that the vampire has done
my laundry, and he has turned everything pink.
There are crumbled bits of bone trapped in the wrinkles in my sheets smooth
and white like chunks of St. Petersburg marble. He seems so proud of himself, that he’s done my
laundry all by himself (and without me
even asking!) that I pretend to be pleased with my pink sheets, my pink
clothes. I wonder what he put in the wash
to make everything turn so pink— a red sock, a potholder, a cat another
woman I think about
asking, but I don’t want to know.
The Storm By Holly Day Snow fills the sky, thick as
bees. The lights of the city
glitter far away, like stars lured
to the ground. Slabs of sidewalk disappear beneath the snow, quiet and still and invisible— we could become lost here, in our own neighborhood be forced
to seek shelter in a neighbor’s garage freeze to death minutes from our own front door. Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center
in Minnesota, since 2000. Her published books include Music Theory for Dummies,
Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, Piano All-in-One
for Dummies, Walking Twin Cities, Insider’s Guide to the Twin Cities, Nordeast
Minneapolis: A History, and The Book Of, while her poetry has
recently appeared in New Ohio Review, SLAB, and Gargoyle. Her
newest poetry book, Ugly Girl, just came out from Shoe Music Press.
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