Katie Holtmeyer

Cadavers

there are some structures
that crack under the pressure
this town’s full of foundations
that made a suicide-pact
and the bones of their buildings
still haunt the alleys that swallowed them
broken beer bottles scattered among
the cigarette ashes
and receipts so worn
you can’t even read the buyer’s secrets
the paths that get you to the cemetery
the fastest are like ghost tours
of these abandoned properties
all you need are knives and knuckles
and the guts it takes
to fill the skeletons in your wake

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Katie Holtmeyer is currently in graduate school at Truman State University. Her work has been published on Pocketfire's Kindling. Katie uses she/her pronouns and can be found on twitter at @HoltmeyerKatie.