Holly Wren Spaulding, Author at Witness

Holly Wren Spaulding

Holly Wren Spaulding's work has appeared in The Nation, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Bear River Review. Her chapbook, The Grass Impossibly, won the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press award. She is the 2012 Artist-in-Residence at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science and is senior editor of Dunes Review.

Not the Blue Walls Blackening, Then the Ghostly Curtains

By Holly Wren Spaulding

Poetry•Vol. XXV No. 1 (Spring 2012)

the way it crawled the rafters like a hungry lion. Not ashy postcards or our map of California, Rachel staring, White Russian in hand. Not the melted surfboard, waterlogged books; not the bright suspendered man saying You should get out now, the air’s no good here, bitter heat and reek of everything burning. Not the… [Read More]