Rebellion Box
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Hollay Ghadery
Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in various literary journals and magazines. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions’ MiroLand imprint in Spring 2021. Rebellion Box is her debut collection of poetry
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Title Page: Rebellion Box by Hollay GhaderyCopyright @ 2023 Hollay Ghadery
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Title: Rebellion box / Hollay Ghadery.
Names: Ghadery, Hollay, author.
Description: Poems.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20230196098 |
Canadiana (ebook) 20230196101 |
ISBN 9781989274910 (softcover) | ISBN 9781989274934 (EPUB)
Classification: LCC PS8613.H33 R43 2023 | DDC C811/.6—dc23
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Table of Contents
Postcard, Santa Maria
It won’t stop, but it will be divided into four stages
Maiasaura
Dreadnoughtus
Mom
Mammalian Attachment Theory
Heifer
RUN
SPIN
ROLL
Rumination
Drunk Dream
Patient 31
Yepsen
20K
Psychomachia
Good People
Search History
The 13th Step
Cosmic Script
Braids
Pouch of Douglas
Ovum Ghazal
Zendegee Khālee Neest
Walk it Off
Cronartiaceae
Anemic Galaxy
Apeirophobia
Runaway Universe
Hunting Season Selfie
Zeigarnik Effect
Cold Comfort
Rebellion Box
Slipped Earth
Corpse Pose
Chair Pose
The Limits of Whiteness
Foster Memorial
Why Fatima Killed Her Mother
Water Safety I
Water Safety II
Water Safety III
Felt Cute, Might Delete Later
shadow pocket
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Instructions for Lucretia
Fight Like a Girl
Arosak
Free Indirect Discourse
Optical Phenomena
Postcard, Santa Maria
1.
Across the pool
the boy’s plum-
dark eyes gulp
refracted light
all over the girl
beside me.
Stretched
to indifference
her thighs are
perfectly fattened
calves, flicking
flies; their frisson
of velvet shimmers
made slow
by this
drugged heat.
Made soft.
2.
I’m not that girl
anymore. I
have the
conviction
of dust and
the cervix
of a fifteen-year-old,
my doctor says.
Not bad
for four kids
so I believe
in anything
so I can
believe