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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 2h

oh, my darling I am lost in the light of you I might never find my way back to the dark #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 11h

Autumn— careless in her glory s p i l l s her l i g h t over frosted fields

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 23h

To the Men Who Comment Sequels to my Poems, It’s lovely that my words stirred up thoughts and images for you, but what you’re doing is a bit like tacking a doodle onto a painting an artist has hung on her own wall. You can tell me it’s meant as praise or support, but I won’t believe you.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh, my darling this light becomes a reverence the moment it bathes the horizon of your face #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October speaks and our bones sigh their answer #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh, my darling the way you form havens with your every breath #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

they fed her seeds of silence then shamed her for the quiet her body b l o o m e d #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

and when the birds arrived the sky shaped itself to hold them and when you arrived I shaped myself the same #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh, my darling I do not know how to bear the weight of such a sky except in the knowing of your safety beneath it

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh, my darling protect that ferocious heart of yours fight the prying fingers that crave it tame hold your rib bones shut against them open only to those who love you fierce and wild #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this day —a symphony of sunlight and salt #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oh, my darling murder me no flowers fill my vases with mayhem and moonlight pick me bouquets of sky-fire and birdsong scatter me petals of poetry and promises #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the ocean bends these tidal bones waves my marrowed deep seaborne but mountain grown the hills are now my keep the tide a call the shore an ache the sea a distant plane the wind my breath the waves my pulse within each salt-brined vein #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the sky is a clamouring of clouds today and a scrivening of birds peppers the expanse with its winging #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

she doesn’t know how to save a poem for later she chain-smokes words till her lungs are f u l l the remnants cling to her skin like ashes #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

oh, my darling your pulse is a siren’s call to a dire, dire dance and my resistance is as flimsy as s t a r l i g h t upon the s e a

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh, my darling I have sung myself a ballad of breath and bone I have known the anatomy of a love too brief but this grief lies sweet upon my tongue #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh, my darling gather these soft days with me tuck them into your pockets write them as poems and paragraphs hold them whenever you miss yourself most #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh, my darling I would hold you how the sky holds its birdsong #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh, my darling be a tenderness to these glass bones of mine I cannot bear the weight of another wound #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh, my darling how casually you hold your world t o g e t h e r the sky s p l i n t e r s between your fingers the soil c r u m b l e s between your toes and yet your miracle mouth remains such a softness #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

good soup is a poem in the stomach of the soul #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh, my darling your words are a thrill of ink upon the paper of my thoughts #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

she throws poems like spaghetti never certain what might s t i c k #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

she is a vessel rarely permitted the rest of emptiness she aches to pour herself f r e e #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

she carries the bright bones of thousands of sunsets her feet have worn curlicues into the skin of the world the sky never tires of stretching above her the seas and the trees [oh the trees, the trees] call her ever home #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh, my darling look— the blackbirds are s t i t c h i n g the sky together again and we alive with ache wending our way beneath the dappled shadows of their wings #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

5 random facts about me—quote to play along 1. I identify as a tall hobbit (5’9) 2. I co-own a vision clinic & know a worrying amount about eyeballs 3. Whenever I watch British TV I accidentally adopt the accents 4. I have a wall of clocks—only 1 works 5. My veggie crisper is full of cheese

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

she is a necromancer of untold stories she finds them in the boneyards and on the shores of salt-rich seas she doesn’t know how to give them back to the minds that should have told them and so she gathers tenderly till her magic dares unfold them #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh, my darling the way your ballad-body bends stanzas simmering beneath your skin you just don’t know how to be anything but a poem #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh, my darling you are the bright thread whip-stitching my frayed edges

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

everyone in this room is writing a poem and the w o r d s are a trembling of possibility and other magics #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dear One, It’s okay if you don’t “got this.” Some things aren’t possible to be got. And sometimes we are doing far more gotting than any one soul can bear. Be gentle with your lovely self, okay?

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

oh, my darling what is this world even asking of you what demands do earth and sky —soil and cloud press against the dire plain of your skin? #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

oh, my darling I will be a holding of this soft silence with you I will hush my hunger for the hum of your words I will linger long for the song of your speaking I will wait, I will wait for your every unfolding #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

oh, my darling do you remember the time we found the glass lake holding its piece of the fragile sky? and the trees bled their green into shades of umber and russet and gold … #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

oh, my darling I ache to d i s s o l v e— like sugar upon the tongue —into the soft light of your every thought #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

oh, my darling I don’t know how to open these doors b e t w e e n us the window glass is a fog of breath and hope #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

oh, my darling your words are birds and they nest in all my hollow p l a c e s #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you tell me “Let’s get down to business” and defeating the Huns isn’t on the agenda, I’m outta there.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

oh, my darling there’s a wildness s t i t c h e d within your skin it thrums and t h r o b s it aches to spin it begs for s t o r m s the sky’s its kin it’s all you are it’s all you’ve been #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

she is a study in brevity and bone she has held herself too still—too long the birds mistake her for stone #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

oh, my darling I sometimes forget what it is to know the restless thrum of your heartbeat drum drum drumming the divot of my wrist #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

she’s got moonlight in her m o l e c u l e s and sea salt in her hair the wind has been her lover—twice and the trees have stripped her bare #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

oh, my darling love is an offering of every possible s h e l t e r

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

oh, my darling hold me the way a b o o k m a r k holds a page like I’m the start of everything else to come

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

she lives in the place where the bone-flowers bloom —where whippoorwills whisper the moon from its slumber and all her world is a riot of root and moss and umber the night wind pretends not to care for her at all …

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

oh, my darling that seashell mouth of yours— the way I can hear the ocean roaring behind your smile #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

and when night fell at last the wind licked it lips and tasted nothing but sky, sky, sky #poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the moon is a poem written upon the skin of the world #poetry

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