Holly Day is a housewife and mother of 2 living in Minneapolis. She teaches needlepoint classes for the Minneapolis school district and writing classes at The Loft Literary Center. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hawai’i Pacific Review, Slant, and The Tampa Review, and she is the 2011 recipient of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her most recent books are Walking Twin Cities and Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch.

In the End
By Holly Day

the descendants of laboratory rats
of humanity, crude pumped from Arlington Cemetery

compared to the oil the dinosaurs left behind
the waste will seem limitless
even to environmentalists.