Two poems published in latest Amsterdam Quarterly issue
Two of Hollis’ poems in AQ’s new ‘Migration’ issue
Ocean Road
Some skincare people tried to bottle it once, the scent of that road to the beach, the essence of privilege breezing past toil, that heady combination of ocean, farmland, hyacinth and continually cut grass, hidden sweat, and when he spent half his privet trimming earnings to send a small bottle back to his little sister […]
Agamemnon, in Ontario
Would they come back to life a hundred times, for you to do the same again… No God warned you to cover your tracks, pull that car and its booty out of the cold canal. Our smiles were too wide, necklines too low, father, to secure us a rung at a safe distance from your honour. […]