Fellowship of the Unmoored - Women in November

Women in November

Tara Hollander

I’ve been thinking about salt that can illuminate a house

I’ve been thinking about how the greatest scientists

Haven’t gotten a hold of its simplest properties,

How the closest they’ve got is natural manipulation:

Conductor of ions between sea and river water.

Mostly, salt sits as untapped power of individual crystals.

I picture us sprinkled and sinking, shaken from sky.

I’ve been floating, thinking on things, with a blank face

And faraway eyes, like useless salt of the earth;

A conductor of ions without a membrane to cross.

Without a way to generate in these conditions.

I want to know if the future includes me,

I want to know if the light in the house is on.

Tara Hollander is an emerging poet whose work meditates on gender, sexuality, family, and immersive biology. She is currently obtaining an MFA in creative writing at American University in Washington, DC. Tara is originally from Washington State and finds home in the nature of the Pacific Northwest. For Tara, the personal is political and there is no greater encounter into change than reading and writing.

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