Bill Hollands
puzzle
always in progress
in my mind
never done mother
at the rickety card
table vast field
of flowers or snow-
capped peaks tabs
blanks the end-
less blue sky
Bill Hollands’ work has been featured on The Slowdown podcast and in such journals as DIAGRAM, The Adroit Journal, The Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Plume, and Boulevard. His debut collection Mangrove (ELJ Editions) will be published in 2025. He lives in Seattle with his husband and son. Twitter/X @bill_hollands.