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.
ISSUE NINE features poetry by Toby Altman, Holly Amos, Polina Barskova, Michael Bazzett, Malachi Black, Cynthia Cruz, Jon Davis, Chard deNiord, Jay Deshpande, Robert Fernandez, Elisa Gabbert, Eryn Green, Matthias Göritz, Leslie Harrison, Donika Kelly, Krystal Languell, Barry Schwabsky, Sandra Simonds, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Kary Wayson, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Phillip B. Williams; fiction by Sydney Bradley, Olivia Clare, Jill Eisenstadt, Cara Hoffman, and Emily Mitchell; nonfiction by Chloe Garcia Roberts, Daniel Barban Levin, and Lore Segal; a film essay by Candice Wuehle; and a conversation between Donika Kelly and Phillip B. Williams.