holly day

I Tell Her

being a wife and being a mother are two very similar things
from watching me clean crumbs up after my husband
I put my hands over her ears, fill her head instead with princes
that never stop blooming.

every night, I could maybe see him as some sort of hero
contributing something to the family, the horrible things he calls me,
waking up the middle of the night with babies
I don’t believe this, but I still do it.

Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis , Minnesota who teaches needlepoint classes for the Minneapolis school district and writing classes at The Loft Literary Center. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hawai’i Pacific Review, Slant, and The Tampa Review, and she is the 2011 recipient of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College . Her most recent published books are " Walking Twin Cities " and "Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch."

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