Kit Kennedy

Kit Kennedy is a queer elder poet, blogger living in Walnut Creek, CA.  She serves as Poet in Residence at SF Bay Times and Resident Poet at Ebenezer Lutheran herchurch.  Find more of her poetry bites here.

 

How Can I Write About the Warmth Objects Leave Behind

 

when you tell me

to put on my sad clothes?

 

Brevitas 18 Anthology of the Short Poem 2021


Let’s Sit by an Imaginary Fire and Not Say a Word

 

one flame separates them

the same

brings them together

 

Brevitas 17 Anthology of the Short Poem 2020


Of All Seasons

 

Fall

is

most

intimate

with

gravity

 

Brevitas 15 Anthology of the Short Poem 2018


Fog, Window & Mountain Concur

 

it’s always been about those three trees, precisely

how wind ruffles a story

 

Brevitas 14 Anthology of the Short Poem 2017


For Li Po & No One Else

 

Because

who else would perish

trying to embrace the moon?

 

Brevitas 13 Anthology of the Short Poem 2016


Billowing Sleeves of a Kimono

 

elsewhere

grasslands

 

Brevitas 10 Anthology of the Short Poem 2013


Gauguin Refused Lunch

 

fox steels eggs broad daylight

makes omelet   meanwhile…

 

his friend

hospitalized   head turbaned

 

wheat fields crazed with crow

black feathers cry   thunder

 

the yellow house vacant

 

sunflowers to seed

 

 

Brevitas 6 Anthology of the Short Poem 2009

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