First the Sky Turned Green
About Karen Holman
Karen Holman is a crisis counselor serving Detroit and an advocate for those living with mental illnesses. Her chapbook, Welcoming in the Starry Night of the Lightning Bees, is featured in New Poets, Short Books, Vol. IV. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in Salamander, Puerto del Sol, POOL, Gargoyle, Sentence, flashquake, Berkeley Poetry Review, 2 Bridges Review, december, and Portland Review, among others.
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endless gulping glugging bubbling tug
swallows the ocean into its maw
Ghost-white pedophile on trial, plastic surgery masks
Its unusual suspect, his kidnapped once-black skin,
Elephant Man bones museums bought & sold like hit tracks,
this is our home she says, skin and bones built up with love
we put basil on everything