Holly Day- Two Poems

            First

holding you down

my arms wrapped tight around your body

like plastic wrap, like cocoon silk

my fingers over your eyes, in your ears

smearing my lipstick all over

your body, my lips

bright red bloody streaks

in the dark, marking my territory

marking you mine.

 

            Turbulence

you are a deep blue ocean

and I have spent too much time trying to patch up

this slow leak.

put your fingers back on me, the one thing

I don’t understand

I don’t know what might have been.

all this thinking. 

Short bio: Holly Day was born in Hereford, Texas, “The Town Without a Toothache.” She and her family currently live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center. Her published books include the nonfiction books Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, and Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, and the poetry books “Late-Night Reading for Hardworking Construction Men” (The Moon Publishing) and “The Smell of Snow” (ELJ Publications).