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August 2, 2016
 

We have no choice in the bodies that hold us

 
Holly Amos
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About This Poem

 

“I wrote this poem shortly after adopting a second dog, Husker. Husker was already an adult, already had lived with a family who inexplicably took him and his brother (who was euthanized for space issues, as far as I know) to Chicago Animal Care and Control. One night I was sitting on the couch with Husker who had fallen asleep, and I was struck by the deep unbearableness that his life had been so thoroughly dictated by someone other than himself.”
—Holly Amos

 

Holly Amos is the author of Continual guidance of air (H_NGM_N Books, 2016). She is the editorial assistant for Poetry and lives in Chicago, Illinois.

 

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Continual guidance of air

(H_NGM_N Books, 2016)

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