Into the Cracks

By Holly Day

In Into the Cracks, Holly Day gives us 53 precisely crafted fragments of a carefully observed and passionate life. It's the life of a mother, a daughter, a lover, a housewife, a victim, a rebel--told in terms of concrete boots and dying butterflies, clouds of squid ink and the smudged glass of a dusty picture frame.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Golden Antelope Press
• Release date: Jun 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781936135745

Holly Day

Holly Day and Sherman Wick are the authors of several books about the Twin Cities. Sherman Wick received his BA in history from the University of Minnesota and has been a member of the Minnesota Historical Society for several decades. Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer for local and national publications for over twenty-five years and teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center.

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INTO THE CRACKS

Other Books Written (or Co-written) by Holly Day

The Book Of

Guitar All-in-One for Dummies

I’m in a Place Where Reason Went Missing (poems)

Insider’s Guide to the Twin Cities

Music Theory for Dummies

Music Composition for Dummies

Nordeast Minneapolis: A History

A Perfect Day for Semaphore (poems)

Piano All-in-One for Dummies

The Smell of Snow (poems)

Stillwater, Minnesota: A Brief History

Walking Twin Cities

The Yellow Dot of a Daisy (poems)

Into the Cracks

Poems by

Holly Day

Copyright 2019 by Holly Day

Cover Image Copyright 2019 Holly Day

Cover Design by Russell Nelson and Lexie Biggs

All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be duplicated in any way without the expressed written consent of the publisher, except in the form of brief excerpts or quotations for review purposes.

ISBN: 978-1-936135-74-5

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Golden Antelope Press

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Holly Day’s latest collection is at its best talking about children, mothers, and disappearing daughters. It’s all about how things and even people themselves can feel smaller and smaller in a world that doesn’t always seem to care, until we begin to fall between the cracks of time, until we feel invisible, and start to question if we were ever there to begin with.

—John Dorsey, author of Your Daughter’s Country

Holly Day whips alive the mundane shadows under our noses. Hers is a world where mannequins become sea slug homes and sparrows plan to take over the world. When whatever ghosts rest on dusty trunks in Depression era homes, these are the poems recited to remember who is haunting who."

—Mark Mallman, author of the Happiness Playlist

To Nancy

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Into the Cracks

At the Stop

The Rite of Exploration

The Spider in the Funeral Parlor

When They Go

In the Grip of Sensual Illusion

The White Knight

Sick

I Gave You

(won’t ever) Tell on You

Bloodlines

The Mannequin’s Last Stop

My Mother’s Last Days

Hands Fall Like Dying Butterflies

The Daughter Who Left

Crossing Guard

On the Right Path

The Far