An Afternote to a Book Without Us
Hand in hand, fingers turn to claws and I
still know you inside that mask of anger, I
can still see the person I will always fall
in love with behind those bright eyes,
am I going to die tonight? I wonder.
Walk with me softly past the corner
where we first kissed. Here, under the street lamp,
the exact spot where you said you loved me
over and over again, do you remember?
I do. I do. This is us, so many years later,
and there is only ice when we speak,
but do you remember? I wonder.
Holly Day’s poetry has recently appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Grain, and Harvard Review. Her newest poetry collections are Where We Went Wrong (Clare Songbirds Publishing), Into the Cracks (Golden Antelope Press), Cross Referencing a Book of Summer (Silver Bow Publishing), and The Tooth is the Largest Organ in the Human Body (Anaphora Literary Press).