From "Negro League Baseball": Mother and Father and other frank nouns flow between freedoms in this stream of conscious dispersal. Rather than say they are musical They are music. I mean we say we mean it because it feels nice to mean anything—it feels childlike a newborn lost in a beautiful cave on the way to behavior—It feels and fields and home and safe only saved, like a packet of foreign sugar back pocket cafe good nigger swagger—wait. Harmony Holiday was born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1982. Her father was Northern Soul singer Jimmy Holiday. She is an MFA student at Columbia University.