patrick Holloway

The Naming of Things By Patrick Holloway You have swallowed a planet & I have been witness To its swelling & swirling, Have felt it orbit Beneath my hand, Have seen its gravity Pull you from bed To the toilet & back…

Bubaloo Boomeranging distance Between us, I throw it away And it hurtles back Like the hooves Of a hundred horses Upon muddied sand. I remember pulling Bubble-gum between my teeth And wanting it to stretch Further than the…