Poetry by Kilmeny MacMichael Contrail paints through blue I turn away, but later your flight’s thunder breaks I guard long-lasting summer’s gift as frost creeps upwards, shivering Small brown and brown birds dart around hanging feeder the tree dreams beyond cloud Young red-tail attacks leaving me a feather as the starving moon rises Cold red … Continue reading Trajectory (a poem)
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Inhalation (a poemstorything)
Flash from a camera, old kind I’ve never held Bulb cracks hot, pops on the asphalt Dazzle captures as a still leaping figure - Likely man - why man, I don’t know, easier for them to get away - no grandmother’s bruised circles waiting to push through their skin around the evening mirror, no blue … Continue reading Inhalation (a poemstorything)
Zombie Fire
I have been sorting through my documents and re-arranging things over the past little while. In the process I have come across a lot of half-finished thoughts and poems. Here's a poem where I was clearly experimenting (and struggling) with a rythym scheme - and with using poetry to respond to news. So far this … Continue reading Zombie Fire
Another poem
I decided to write a poem for every day in May as I worked through the responses from my beta readers to my cookbook, and also worked on editing a short creative non-fiction piece. Half way through the month I started looking over the poems I wrote at the start of the month, deciding if … Continue reading Another poem
Spring poem
I read an Erle Stanley Gardner/Perry Mason novelette last month. It was not exactly literary, but it was exciting and fun in places. The novelette came in a hardcover book with two other novelettes, which I decided I didn't need to read. (Did I mention these popular lawyer-detective books were not exactly literary?) What was … Continue reading Spring poem
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