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  • Joyful Noise
  • Tami Haaland (bio)

When they are gone I miss them.Nearly grown boys, the two of themsnapping towels in the kitchen,throwing potatoes. Someday I won'tstand between you, I say as they lungein a mock fight. They tell methey may lock me in another roombefore then. Laughing, laughing.

They crash against each otherin the hall, the kitchen. The pansare hot, I say. They hardly need me.They set the table in a mad dance:I am the mashed potato man,yes I am the mashed potato man.One of them skips with pan and masher,the other bangs fists on his head. [End Page 87]

Tami Haaland

Tami Haaland is the author of a poetry collection, Breath in Every Room (2001). Recent work has appeared in High Desert Journal, 5AM, Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, Letters to the World, and The Writer's Almanac. She is an associate professor of English and director of the honors program at Montana State University, Billings. She is the poetry editor for Stone's Throw Magazine. [tami.haaland@gmail.com]

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