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.

Copyright Holliday 2013

Kathleen Holliday has called Lopez Island, Washington, 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.

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