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My newest love in poetry, @klooky.bsky.social . That last line--that whole poem! Read and share. #poetry #poems #versedaily #kestrel #kestrelpoetry
klooky.bsky.social kristin @klooky.bsky.social · Jan 26
pleased as pie to have a poem, originally published in print with kestrel, featured online today at verse daily. jp dancing bear is a goddamn saint.

www.versedaily.org/2025/conditi...
poem called conditions under which everything might be different: if i were a key. if men were not quiet, exactly, but still. if something small named sacred stayed by my side. if i knew holier eras like a friend, a crane, a coconut. what i split open could heal. if time was not a cosmonaut. not nationed. unappointed, slivered infinitely into reunion. i would unearth a softer blade, cut tunnels in dead wood. count every lizard. lose sleep to see the sun rise over a very old catastrophe, say what i mean: dear father, cousin, beloved, still living. wake up on a wetland, bleating.
January 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM