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