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Kathleen Holliday

Kathleen Holliday lives on an island in the Salish Sea. Her poems have appeared in The Bellingham Review, The Blue Nib Literary Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, New Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal, Poet Lore, Poetry Super Highway, SHARK REEF, The Write Launch and other journals. She is a graduate of Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN. Her chapbooks, Putting My Ash on the Line, (2020), and Boatman, Pass By (2023), were published by Finishing Line Press.

“My Near-Death Experience”

As near-death experiences go,
it was one of the best.
What more is there to tell?
Poetry
Issue 81, March 2024
Issues Archive

“Lifeboat in the Apocalypse,” “The News of Your Death” and “The Gift of a Green Scarf”

I haven’t always wanted to be
in the same boat with them
but when the time comes, I hope
there’ll be room for me in that lifeboat
Poetry
Issue 44, December 2020
Issues Archive

“The Last Days of the Dinosaurs”

In third grade, one afternoon,
we were ushered into the auditorium
for a 16mm animated film
about dinosaurs.
As comets and asteroids fell,
pocking the earth,
so did the huge creatures,
Poetry
Issue 36, April 2020
Issues Archive

“The Wine-Dark Sea” and “The Weighing of the Heart”

A sea wife,
my mother didn’t have time
to pace a widow’s walk,
searching for a sail on the horizon.

She was too busy
pinning up sheets to dry,
weeding the garden…
Poetry
Issue 32, December 2019
Issues Archive

Kathleen Holliday

Kathleen Holliday lives on an island in the Salish Sea. Her poems have appeared in The Bellingham Review, The Blue Nib Literary Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, New Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal, Poet Lore, Poetry Super Highway, SHARK REEF, The Write Launch and other journals. She is a graduate of Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN. Her chapbooks, Putting My Ash on the Line, (2020), and Boatman, Pass By (2023), were published by Finishing Line Press.

“My Near-Death Experience”

As near-death experiences go,
it was one of the best.
What more is there to tell?
Poetry
Issue 81, March 2024
Issues Archive

“Lifeboat in the Apocalypse,” “The News of Your Death” and “The Gift of a Green Scarf”

I haven’t always wanted to be
in the same boat with them
but when the time comes, I hope
there’ll be room for me in that lifeboat
Poetry
Issue 44, December 2020
Issues Archive

“The Last Days of the Dinosaurs”

In third grade, one afternoon,
we were ushered into the auditorium
for a 16mm animated film
about dinosaurs.
As comets and asteroids fell,
pocking the earth,
so did the huge creatures,
Poetry
Issue 36, April 2020
Issues Archive

“The Wine-Dark Sea” and “The Weighing of the Heart”

A sea wife,
my mother didn’t have time
to pace a widow’s walk,
searching for a sail on the horizon.

She was too busy
pinning up sheets to dry,
weeding the garden…
Poetry
Issue 32, December 2019
Issues Archive
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