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You Never Know

A Story by Mark Holmgren

You never know what life will bring, where it will lead you, when it will leave you.

Warpage

A Poem by Mark Holmgren

For F.B. Gower 1 Knuckling eyes, coughing up the rip blade's dusty spew, we have no clocks to watch, only our inner sense of when to rest. We s..

Music

A Poem by Mark Holmgren

I was a small boy living in New York when my mother began to teach me how to sing. Her instruction was not about mastering my voice or becoming a prod..

Adventure

A Poem by Mark Holmgren

In my early teens, my parents and I would summer at our cabin on Leech Lake. The first boat we owned was a 12 foot fiberglass vessel with a 20 horse p..

My Fear Was Psycho/Logical

A Poem by Mark Holmgren

which meant I was crazy scared to death which meant I knew you didn't think I knew what was going on. I was flat on my back trying to write off what..

Exposure

A Poem by Mark Holmgren

Like a squirrel with an acorn I work at you until you are forced open. Only, what I find I store away for a future harvest. No wond..

In the end there are no conclusions

A Poem by Mark Holmgren

for Phil and Anna 1 Sometimes we focus on what is missing, not denying what we do have but overpowered by the sadness of loss: the loss..

Poem for Grandfather Carlson

A Poem by Mark Holmgren

1 We count stars as if tabulation can explain the darkness We want to believe a stonecutter's error brought us here but to look is to see..

Poem for a Lucky Dog

A Poem by Mark Holmgren

I'm just sitting minding my own when this blond dressed in five and dime flashes her flash cube eyes and says wanna dance and I say why not We d..