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  • Poetry Unpacked: On Hope

    Poetry Unpacked: On Hope

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    Holly Leary
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    RED PLANET, RED FLAG (Click for poem) “If I had lost my belief in you, I should have lost all hope.” –George Elliot, Middlemarch Poetry Unpacked: On Hope George Eliot’s line sounds romantic until you sit with its implications. Belief, in this framing, is not separate from hope. It is hope. To lose belief in…

  • Red Planet – Red Flag

    Red Planet – Red Flag

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    Holly Leary
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    Red Planet – Red Flag I start early with the promise of launch– Climbing inside 5000 metric tons of IRON CHROMIUM and NICKEL.  The caustic current of ionized air colonizing my sinus space.  You send metaphoric messages that dissolve like snowflakes on my tongue– Secret signals from your encampment 224 million miles away.  RED PLANET…