G-NT3806KSJP

Twin Migrations


   


missing a certain            sheath                 over a certain     cartilage         I tick tick         tick as I go
             like great herds     of caribou         O

                                                                                                                                   seacoast cow
your shadow is blue       this cannot be               a mistake               soft and surprising as             pink
flowers half-hidden in leaf litter             or bit     of buck fuzz        laid bare             after first snowmelt
             cloud-bound     small yellow stars            quake                   flushed from      lightyears       of stop-
and-go
                                                                                                                                            tick ticking
            whatever
halved us          into being           hints of blue           in the mud             humming            like lights
over nightwater                           eating mostly   squid       and other         fissures     red       crabs and
             krill
                                                                                                                                     I am as surprised
as you are           by wanting this:            the masculine             tuna             slick-finned               muscling
            through the deep






Emily Hollander is the author of the chapbook Successive Approximations (Bottlecap, 2025). Her work appears in Mudfish, GARLAND, Kestrel, anthologies from Nightboat Books and Wesleyan University Press, and has been supported by the Catwalk Institute. They hold an MFA from Columbia University where they served as the print editor of Columbia Journal.