Carrier

Carrier

Haley Hodges

how’d you get this grief in me? good,
good grief I carry it

like an illness
like an infant like a gun like

a grail, except those things can be dropped,
correctly stored

or cured

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Haley Hodges
Writer & Poet

Haley Hodges is an MFA (Poetry) candidate at Seattle Pacific University. She holds qualifications from Hope College, Shenandoah Conservatory, and Oxford University. Haley is a 2025 cohort member of the Rivendell Institute’s Christian Poetics Initiative. Her work is featured in Cassandra Voices, Solum Journals Vol. V & VI, Pink Disco Magazine and Reformed Journal, with pieces forthcoming in The Blunt Space, Eunoia Review and t'ART. She lives in West Virginia with her husband and son.

Photography by Ekaterina Astakhova