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For we so loved holes we let them<\/span><\/p>\n move into this world. A screened porch the wind\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n passes through without howling. Let grief\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n soak in the concrete driveway,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n let it freeze & thaw & erode & pit<\/span><\/p>\n the surface until there is nothing to do but watch\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n things crumble. Who am I missing, as weeks\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n collapse like dunes walking themselves\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n through a desert, the dead keep\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n scooping themselves from my heart\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n with a melon baller. I grow gristle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n on the ragged edges. I edit<\/span><\/p>\n the Christmas card list, three rows each<\/span><\/p>\n this year and last. I rust from my own\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n tears like tin, stuck standing in this clearing, ax raised.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Holes Shana Ross For we so loved holes we let them move into this world. A screened porch the wind\u00a0 passes through without howling. Let grief\u00a0 soak in the Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6645,"featured_media":0,"parent":1261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3750\/revisions\/4345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/headshot-with-cat_Ross-e1699971943978-150x150.jpg\")
Shana Ross<\/strong> is a recent transplant to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty Six Territory.\u00a0\u00a0Qui transtulit sustinet.\u00a0\u00a0Her work has recently appeared in Cutbank Literary Journal, Laurel Review, Gigantic Sequins, Meetinghouse Magazine<\/em> and more. She is the winner of the 2022 Anne C. Barnhill prize and the 2021 Bacopa Literary Review Poetry competition, as well as a 2019 Parent-Writer Fellowship to Martha\u2019s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She serves as an editor for Luna Station Quarterly<\/em> and a critic for Pencilhouse<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"