Holly Thompson

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Exhibit B

When you enter me
into evidence, be kind
as you are inside.

Be still intimate
with my throat’s
openness,

let me not be
insufficient
as a fingerprint.

Exhibit, be
probative, arouse
belief.

Let me be
brief, prepare you
for a plea.

Holly Thompson is a North Carolina poet and PhD student. She received a Master's degree in English from Wake Forest University, where she interned at the Irish poetry press. She was the 2026 Storozynski Writer in Residence at the University of Notre Dame. Her work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Mobius: The Journal for Social Change, Foothill Poetry Journal, and others. She has read her work on Rattle's weekly podcast, Rattlecast.