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Holly Mitchell

Gay Dinner

Suzette is making dinner,

     I say on one of those calls

without a holiday to justify when

     Nana wants to hear my voice.

 

Louder than before, Nana

     chuckles & replies a little wildly

as if talking to her ex-husband

     through a steel sieve:

 

Must be nice for someone

     to cook dinner for you.

Could our daily creations

     never cross her mind?

 

How we nourish each other

     through our twenties? The night

stews a simple acidic mélange

     of fish, nightshades, roots.

Holly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky who now lives in New York. Holly’s debut collection, Mare’s Nest, was published by Sarabande Books in 2023. Holly’s poems have appeared in many publications, most recently Hood of Bone, Traverse, and the Poetry Society of America’s “In Their Own Words” series.

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