Kathleen Holliday lives on an island in the Salish Sea. Her poems have appeared in Cathexis Northwest Press, Common Ground Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Super Highway, SHARK REEF Literary Magazine, The Write Launch and other journals. She is a graduate of Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN. Her chapbooks, Putting My Ash on the Line (2020) and Boatman, Pass By (2023) were published by Finishing Line Press. For more: www.kathleenholliday.comRich with imagery, irony, and word-play, the poems of Kathleen Holliday's third chapbook, A Cage in Search of a Bird range from narrative to brief, all with startling impact. There are poems of family: If My Father Could Ask Why I Have Tattoos and death: Rounded with a Sleep. The natural world appears-though in surprising ways: Native Tongue, A Walk in the Woods; as does eros: The Final Problem, My Near-Death Experience. A long sojourn in Minnesota results in The Fifth Month of Winter. The final poem, Rafting, is a gesture toward connection in these dark times.Several of these poems first appeared in literary journals. Running in the Dark was awarded first prize in Common Ground Review's Poetry Prize 2022, and the title poem was long-listed in the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2022, judged by former U.S. poet laureate, Billy Collins.