Day, Holly

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Studio One Volume 42 Article 10 2017 The Flavor of the Sea Holly Day Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/studio_one  Part of the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Day, Holly (2017) "The Flavor of the Sea," Studio One: Vol. 42, 26. Available at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/studio_one/vol42/iss1/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studio One by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@csbsju.edu. 26The Flavor of the Sea  I bare only half of my history to you, spreads my hands wideto hide the stories that should stay buried. There are screamssandwiched between pages of sunlight, blood washed into wasted breathparts of me that will always be stained with dirty fingerprintswill never wash clean. I set my pleasant thoughts carefully on the quilt before you, delicate as chinalet them unfold into bright, floppy paper flowers fancy enoughfor displaying, half-opened, in jacket pockets at formal functions.I can be good and pure for you, I can,I will ignore the whispers like needlesthe panicked dreams of escape.-Holly DayMinneapolis, MN

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