Holly Amos

Holly Amos, the assistant editor of Poetry, published her first full-length collection Continual Guidance of Air in 2016. Her humor writing and poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, including Little Old Lady; Points in Case; Forklift, Ohio; and Prairie Schooner.

Poetry by Holly Amos

I See The X-Ray of the Rescue with 50 BBS in Him

I won’t look anyone
in the eye
for three days. Because I am human
I want to compare the train
to a metal cage

The Sky Got Caught In My Hair, If Only Theoretically

And home is a projection of what my mind sees. All wisps. The black pocket we call memory: that which seeks light only to contain it.

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