As Above

 

My Honey
—Poetry by Kelly Moyer, North Carolina
—Visuals Courtesy of Kelly Moyer

the lessons
mama never taught me
chevron stitch

* * *

human fallibility a slow trickle into the saucer

* * *

tchotchkes
too many hearts
gathering dust

 

 

 

 Tending Fish

 

sunset tuning the beauty shop violins

* * *

abandonment issues
opting
for the stronger verb

* * *

cradlesong not a bird on the bough

 

 

 

 Irrefutable

 

late-life romance
pressing
autumn wildflowers

* * *

wheelbarrows
all i take
to the grave

* * *

the love forbidden
its passing
a fossilized rose

 

 

 

 As Above

 

daybreak shaping posterity's footprint

* * *

growing pains
the cicada's
half-empty shell

 

 

 

 Abuzz in the Clover

 

playground matrimony before the china broke

* * *

pigeon-colored
the bloom
of a question mark

* * *

mama's handiwork
a zipper
in the selkie skin

 

 

 

Just Another Jisei

 

warp threads as if love were a weakness

* * *

ripe banana
the fruit flies were but one
of our illusions

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Today’s LittleNip:

journey cakes
the unmarked road
toward home

—Kelly Moyer

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—Medusa, welcoming Kelly Moyer back to the Kitchen! Kelly’s new book of short form poetry, Hushpuppy (Nun Prophet Press), is available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/HUSHPUPPY-short-poetry-Kelly-Moyer/dp/B0CFCLRSKH/ref=sr_1_26?qid=1692915987&s=books&sr=1-26/. 

 

And my apologies for listing the Petaluma Poetry Walk as happening this weekend. It actually was last weekend. My bad....

 

 

 

 

—Photo Courtesy of Public Domain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 LittleSnake’s Glimmer of Hope
(A cookie from the Kitchen for today):

tiny poem
catches my eye—
secret voyage into
someone else’s
world…