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kiley lee

@kileylee.bsky.social
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poet/glass artist

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Kissing Chickens @kissing-chickens.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I FINALLY finished this piece of #medieval inspired #stainedglass It took a few months. Lots of painting and firing. It’s even more beautiful in person.
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It’ll either be good, or it’ll pass
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
hello 💞 process poet, translation teller 🌊
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Your horoscope for today: Be like a radio station - broadcast your thoughts, hopes, and dreams out into the world and hope a few folks find your wavelength.
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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
this poem haunting today for reasons
EXCAVATING
Ankh Spice
She told me they picked her out specially and I pictured the arcade, the claw machine: her parents, that shiny, cheating hand,
and a bright glass room full of silent babies. Her favourite game was archaeologist. I'd bury whatever I could steal, leave it there
to weather. Ordinary things, she said slyly, are worth more if you lose them,
then find them. Triumphant, filthy, we'd cradle the unearthed, gift them new names,
so instinctive our wild mouths stayed full with their spells. A brother's knife, lumped to clotted rust: the Saint Lazarus sword. Barbie's leg, dog-gnawed and spilling clay marrow - homo tenderfoot. Lamb bones, doll's shoes. Every kind of body. When I'd planted a skull, she'd hiss with satisfaction at the find, lovingly tuck her fortune cookie label in behind the eyes. I, not being a treasured thing, not being a chosen prize, was not meant to know them. I never told her she talked in her sleep, her tongue sifting through dirt. Solo, Mama, slurs the wookie of her growl. I'll find you. The moon on her lips rounding out Home. That night when I stood at the window, counting the stars and plotting the map. How she crow-called behind me: The claw, the claw. Don't let it drop me.
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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
“Metaphors are serious nitpickers” A poem by Camille Guthrie.
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donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
“fever dream in terrible semi-franglais” is no. 7 of 7 donated words poems with past & new words from longtime contributors! it will be in ASOOPP3! 💗 @mathewyates.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @merrildsmith.bsky.social Patrick @kileylee.bsky.social Jenna PDF: tinyurl.com/feverinfr #poetry
square image has abstract black and white background. white rectangular text box is in center (longer vertically). it contains the poem “fever dream in terrible semi-franglais” in black font. donated words are in bold within the poem and contributor names are in bold in the credits. author name is italicized. 

text reads as follows:

fever dream in terrible semi-franglais

a witness 
to a cleaned-up
mess
malgré 
the disembodied 
orange basilisk
of dreams 
gone steady
as a riot 
of snakes
and their 
fanging 
sans anti-
venom
&
the sick
is a bad 
grey/
mal gris
pour
long-
temps
in tepid
temps
et rain-
forest sweat
depuis
winter,
mon dieu!

               K Weber

Thank you to all participants in the 7th of 7 poems in a series incorporating past and new words from longtime contributors!

Mathew Yates - witness
from A Sum of Our Poetic Parts: Vol. 1      

Tom Snarsky - malgré

Merril Smith - disembodied
from SCREAMWORDK

(alt text cuts off - contact me if needed!)
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K Weber @midwesternskirt.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
new donated words poem! thank you: Patrick Dorsey Melinda Farrar Ashley Elizabeth @kileylee.bsky.social Natalie Kocsis Misty Hudson Douglas Menagh @luaz.bsky.social Millie Hudson Joe Liston - coerced
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
I miss my baby so much 💔
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
I love living the same hour over again
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
I get to see Aurora today 💕💕💕 AND she gets to meet her uncle :))))
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donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
SCREAMWORDK is here!  tinyurl.com/screamwordk2... 🧡💜🖤💜🧡 8 new poems written between 2021-2023! 58 people contributed! 76 items were donated for me to include in these poems (words & more!). THANKS READERS & COLLABORATORS! more in the thread (bear with me!)! #poetry (1/?)
digital book cover image for SCREAMWORDK. most of the cover is in various shades of black, white and grey with various contributed words in many fonts and sizes. near the middle of the cover, a charcoal grey banner cuts through at a slant going up from the left side to the right. it contains a scary-looking orange font that looks like it is melting. it reads SCREAMWORDK.
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
one thing about me is, I miss bread bowls
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donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
“The Happening” is the 2nd SCREAMWORDK poem this yr! FREE PDF w/ all SCREAMWORDK poems: SOON! words from: @kileylee.bsky.social @psmwrites.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social Millie Cheryl Dave @glenn-a-barker.bsky.social selected by: @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
white pg w/ black border & scratchy marks in corners. poem is left-justified at top. credits are bottom center. title underlined. donated words in bold thru poem. contributors also bold.

The Happening

A late cackle scrapes open 
the front door. Wind walks in

and out: a fantasm pacing the porch
and foyer. Follow the crunch 

of leaves to the gate. It plays 
eerily; a calliope with din’s bent,

low tones. Murky mirrors flood
puddles but show no ghost. Fear

enters the air. A cornucopia over-
turns on a nervous November’s table:

the spills and spoils abundant. Anxiety
has coagulated any sense of smooth

safety. No ease breathes here; life’s
climbed back into broken coffin, atop 

toppled catafalque. 

                                K Weber



Thank you to these hauntingly cool participants!

Karen Pierce Gonzalez selected these 8 donated words:

Kiley - cackle
Preston - fantasm
Melissa - crunch
Robert - calliope
Millie - murky
Cheryl - cornucopia
Dave - coagulated
Glenn - catafalque
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
I may unexpectedly be in the NICU, but I’m stable and I’ve got two of my favorite people sleeping comfortably in the room with me ❤️
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
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spotify.link
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
lightened my roots and now everyone is ready to fight me
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
finally got to say “bc I’m older and have been doing it for longer” today
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
this most recently completed mosaic duo should make a fine introduction to my stained glass work I break things and then put them back together, nice to meet you
two stained glass mosaics, white flowers with a blue green background
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Sarah Ann Winn | Poet Camp @poetcamp.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
Love planning the morning jumpstarts for Poet Camp. So many beautiful beginnings!
“A Blessing for Stocked Fish” by Cecily Parks [full text of poem in Field Folly Snow]
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kiley lee @kileylee.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
hello :)
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