Issue Twenty-Two - Summer 2013

A Little Green

By Kathleen Holliday

For Daphne

I hoped to burst into leaf
(Having read it worked for her)
My toes sunk deep into brown carpet,
Arms branching toward the ceiling –
A little green,
A thicker skin.

Did she turn in time
To feel his arms surround a slender bole –
Embracing her still-racing heart?

I believe she was the only one
who got away.

Kathleen Holliday has called Lopez Island home since 2008. Though her first love is poetry, she is currently writing a work of historical fiction based on the life of a convict ancestor transported to Australia. She is a graduate of Augsburg College, Minneapolis.

All work by Kathleen Holliday

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