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

In Issue 44 by Kathleen HollidayDecember 1, 2020

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

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“The Last Days of the Dinosaurs”

In Issue 36 by Kathleen HollidayMarch 28, 2020

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,

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

In Issue 32 by Kathleen HollidayNovember 25, 2019

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…

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