Heather Holliger is an English instructor at Clark State College and has been teaching in higher education for the past eighteen years. She also has a background in the nonprofit sector and community arts organizations. She holds an MA in English Teaching and an MFA in Creative Writing and specializes in composition and rhetoric, writing … Continue reading About
Author: Heather A. Holliger
Methuselah
"You can survive on only ten inches of living skin.
While I count my birthdays, sticking white twist-candles
into yellow cakes, you grow a new layer of flesh
from your cambium, a ring of growth 1/100th of an inch..."
Hunger, Blossoms
"My body remembers
traces, moments, inarticulations:
the smell of cinnamon,
orange swirls, a kitchen's
witholdings..."
The Balloon
"An orange balloon on a white string
escapes from a little girl’s hand;
it rises in a swimming motion
like a zigzagging, a ripple, a bright..."
Heather A. Holliger 