By Holly Day
I will know I have lived a good life
when everything I own
at the time of my death
can fit into a shoebox
you can slip under the bed
so when you want to talk
or just remember
you can reach down beneath the covers
and pull all of me out
the poems, our rings
the last good photographs
of the two of us together
we can always be together.
I won’t take up much room.
Copyright Day 2013
Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, who teaches needlepoint classes in the Minneapolis school
district. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Worcester Review, Broken
Pencil, and Slipstream, and she is the recipient of the 2011 Sam Ragan
Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her most recent published book is
"Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch," while her novel, "The Trouble With
Clare," is due out from Hydra Publications in 2013.
All work by Holly Day
