Hollie Hardy is a poet, educator, and author of How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014), winner of the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches private poetry workshops and hosts the monthly reading series Saturday Night Special, a Virtual Open Mic. holliehardy.com
From ‘Five More Minutes Please’
I curl around you
dreaming of breakfast
This moment is all we have, all we ever had
before we break into pieces
thirsty as beach glass
We’ve been practicing departure
since we met
Tonight I want to be present
in the crook of your neck, the small of your back, the back of your tongue
the breath in your lungs
Slippery little memories
our bodies fit together in whispers
naming and claiming and letting go the stars
This sadness is a kind of distance
a shift of light
through winter trees
All the songs remind me of you
and I want to keep dancing
just a little bit longer