When I went to the shore near my home on Earth, I stood on the beach and listened to the lap of waves.   I held a stone in my…

I hold her within unpartable muzzle of gray, in day on day blank stare of sky.   I’m dreaming the stratosphere, the she she cannot become, the layer onto which…

Every mother’s nightgown has a sill and a jamb. Has a child who touches her face and walks through. Each nightgown dreams it’s made of glass or is hungry for…

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The day breaks / saffron as butter / as egg yolk seeping in through the window / slips to the centre of the pan / water bubbles / sachet splits…

I am waiting at the foot of the concrete steps beneath my neighbor’s   maple tree. Every day we walk to school together in these pleated skirts,   cardigan sweaters,…

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Animals are infrequent traitors, only honest atop boat, malicious when washed to sand. Here I am, said God, and there he was, and there we all were, decked out in…

When it rains, it whirs, a sad hum of stand mixer and wet ingredients, storm clouds beaten into stiff peaks.   No, it’s not like that. I’ve been watching too…

The angels demand I gather snowdrops. They say: Snowdrops have to be picked at sunrise. All the way, you must carry a piano on your back. However, they forget to…

In my dream there are junipers, black ants, shovels & mattresses. My dead bury themselves with their limbs facing a slew of stars. I step out into the perfectly bronzed…

J-T Kelly | June 2025

By the time we met, I had only one bone left in my body. Turtles can’t be removed from their shells, but I had become a gooey skin-woman and almost…

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My bug phobia keeps me from identifying species. I’m not sure that it’s a clinical phobia. But my bipolar, that is clinical and raw. Yes. Both. I can’t let it…