{"id":2037,"date":"2013-02-07T01:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=2037"},"modified":"2013-02-07T01:14:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:14:18","slug":"holly-day213","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/holly-day213\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Morning After<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>falling down<br \/>\nfrom the sky above<br \/>\ncome bodies of<br \/>\npeople all asking<br \/>\nthe time, but my<br \/>\nsundial has broke<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nis no good to anyone,<br \/>\nnot me<br \/>\nor all the<br \/>\nnaked girls<br \/>\npiling up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tiny Things<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>she lies so quiet in her crib and I check her breathing. She<br \/>\nstirs in her sleep and I am up, checking<br \/>\nher breathing. she opens her eyes, stares up at the ceiling as if<br \/>\nwondering where she&#8217;s at and I<br \/>\ncheck her breathing.<\/p>\n<p>too many nights up with sick foundling kittens and<br \/>\nbaby birds in shoeboxes, I can only<br \/>\nexpect disaster. I check her pulse while I&#8217;m nursing<br \/>\nwipe gummy deposits from the corners of her eyes and<\/p>\n<p>think about stiff little hamster bodies from childhood<br \/>\nthe neighborhood strays that&#8217;d crawl under our porch to die<br \/>\npink bodies of birds that had yet to open their eyes.<br \/>\nshe smiles in her sleep and I&#8217;m<br \/>\nafraid to put her down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis,<br \/>\nMinnesota who teaches needlepoint classes in the Minneapolis school<br \/>\ndistrict. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Worcester Review, Broken<br \/>\nPencil, and Slipstream, and she is the recipient of the 2011 Sam Ragan<br \/>\nPoetry Prize from Barton College. Her book publications include Music<br \/>\nComposition for Dummies, Guitar-All-in-One for Dummies, Notenlesen f\u00fcr<br \/>\nDummies Das Pocketbuch, and Music Theory for Dummies, which has recently<br \/>\nbeen translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and<br \/>\nGerman. Her novel, &#8220;The Trouble With Clare,&#8221; is due out from Hydra<br \/>\nPublications in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morning After falling down from the sky above come bodies of people all asking the time, but my sundial has broke and is no good to anyone, not me or all the naked girls piling up. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Tiny Things she lies so quiet in her crib and I check her breathing. 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