Holly Amos

IT’S CALLED A BOARDING HAT

Watching Titanic at the gym
is a great way to increase
intensity and duration
of feelings of loneliness
Does anyone really care
about anything
but the sex Now
that I’ve had sex
I feel differently
about that scene
Now that I’ve survived
a shipwreck
I feel differently
about that iceberg
Now that my hair
is short I want
to wear that hat
even more
Nobody really wants
to be a woman
of the past
and that’s al-
most hope

HOLLY AMOS is the associate editor of Poetry. Her work appears with the Academy of American Poets, jubilat, and Prairie Schooner. Her first poetry collection is Continual Guidance of Air.