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Texas Poetry Calendar 2019 (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2018) - "Dear Childhood"

"The moment when I at oracular fourteen, squirreled myself 
in the linoleum cathedral of the high school girl’s room, 
in an avocado stall where I anointed my feet with pink soap
then dried them with toilet paper that left white flecks of tiny 
miseries between my toes, and couldn’t hide the terror 
that it wasn’t just me who could smell them
is ours and ours alone—thank goodness for that . . ."
Star*Line 41.4 (October 2018) - "A Terrible Meat Eating God"

"Rolled in butter and herbs my body is a succulent sacrifice and the god takes me in his mouth bit by bit, moaning at the taste of me. His tongue is cat-rough, his teeth straight and white like the feeder system of a great whale . . ."​
Terse Journal (Oct. 3, 2018) - "What it Feels Like to Play Video Games as a Woman" 

"There’s a synesthesia of hand to controller and my fingers don’t need to be told what to do, what to write, what to hold, when to stop or go. They hold themselves and I can’t even feel them. My hands are not in this body, they are in the dark world, cutting fresh grass with the sword from the stone, they are not of me but of my shadow self. This self follows me to burnt-out saloons and desert plains, to volcanos and underwater caverns, to places I can only find by pressing start. . ."
"Erasure" (after Ralph Waldo Emerson) - in ARTHouston Magazine Issue#7 (September 2018) 

Art
those souls / in the pictures /
breathe / memory /
in danger of forgetting /
that they had their origin /
in wax / and / paint / in the narrow lodging /
of a thought which pours itself /
color and form / barbaric pearl and gold /
I was to see / with eyes / pierced
/ with / salt water, to find that which was perfect /
in the chambers of / the earth
Liminality Issue #17 (Autumn 2018) - "Dead-Eye Girl" 

I am seeking you in the blood on my tongue 
in the rims of shattered bottles under bridges
in the blossoms of storm clouds in summertime
in the songs of cicadas swarming . . .
Nice Cage (Issue 006, Climate Change And/Or Die, Summer/Spring 2018) - "Boll Heart," "And Farther Death Goes," "A Deep Enough Abyss" 

Sunlight fractures their snowy heads / and we see the work of our foremothers / as they pixelate, glitch, and shutter. / The river at their feet is like glass / unmoving, if you peer too closely.
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Really System(Issue 19: Stymy a Seller, Summer 2018)- "Orbital Debris" 
Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More (Apex Book Company, July 17, 2018) - "Sea Fog" 

Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More offers over seventy contemporary poets contending with a time-honored topic: what lies beyond ‘the great beyond.’ The breadth of selection showcases poems ranging from deceased relatives and celebrities to other undead entities such as, vampires, automatons, angels, and yes, zombies. This anthology makes for a definitive addition to any speculative lit library.

Features my poem "Sea Fog" 

Now available for purchase on Amazon
Ekphrastic Review - "Anvil Crawler" 
First appeared in ARTHouston Magazine Issue#5 
Also published in Dreamlike Art & Deviations
​(Ekprhastic inspired by the artwork of John Bernhard.)
Isacoustic, April 14, 2018 -  "espejitos" (excerpt from Glimmerglass Girl) 

Available for purchase in isacoustic* volume fourth (July 2018) 



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2015
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  • Vine Leaves #16 (October 2015) - "A Red Sky." 
  • Our Space: Shorts & Poetry from the Houston Community (2015) "Morning Song." Edited by Writespace staff and volunteers. 

forthcoming
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About the Author

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Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018). She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts.