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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
    • 2 Poems by Seán Griffin
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
On Holes
 
There are things I’m able to say only in the dark. 
How these hands hurt 
 
even now. Again snow is falling like dead stars. 
Again it is November. 
 
Do I believe in lungs? Or only your tangled hair  
clogging the tub? 
 
Tell me all the ways to die silently & tell me where you hide
your favorite shade of evening yellow. 
 
Understand I love loneliness & swallowing 
fistfuls of bees-
 
how a hole is defined by its ability to hold 
& also its emptiness.


Steve Merino​ (he/him/his) is a meat raffle host, a zamboni driver, and a poet living in Saint Paul, MN. He received his MFA from Hamline University in 2019. Steve's previous work can be found in Ghost City Review and Oyster River Pages and is forthcoming to You Flower / You Feast. Find him liking posts on twitter: @steve_merino 
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