https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Exquisite_Corpse_as_Breaking_Down.m4a Exquisite Corpse as Breaking Down The first one came after Gram’s diagnosis / I snagged my running shoes / a turkey tail jutted from my left ankle / I shoved my foot in anyways / I ran past carolers / I ran on a full stomach / I ran past swarms of twinkle lights […]

CLEAVE  https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Cleave.mp3 FOUND SONNET https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Found-Sonnet.mp3 My debut book is THE FEVER POEMS (2021). Recently read and highly recommend: LET THE WORLD HAVE YOU by Mikko Harvey and FRANK: SONNETS by Dianne Seuss. Currently reading: GUT by Amanda Larson and A SYMMETRY by Ari Banias. https://www.kyliegellatly.com/ https://www.kyliegellatly.com/publications https://www.instagram.com/kyliegolightly/

 PART THREE And then came the arrests. Came the tear gas, the percussion grenades, the pepper spray, the wooden bullets, the LRAD declaration of unlawful assembly, the kettling and the batons, came the bicycle scouts having returned from recon to sound the alarm, into the sidestreets, over the fence, be like water, the mad rush […]

  I am being escorted outside, held upright by two women I hardly know. I can feel their strong hands, their fingers gripping my forearms, gently leading me with soft determination, step after step into the waiting car.  It is a cold December night.  Under my feet, the stone steps soak up the rainwater, their […]

There’s a picture of myself I’ve remembered wrong for years. In it, I imagined, I am standing next to someone (at a football game, I think) who was never quite more than an acquaintance and putting on an overeager smile. I have shocking streaks of dark purple and deep rich red in the hair just […]