Kimberly Vanderhorst
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Kimberly Vanderhorst
@kymburlee.bsky.social
AuDHD author of poetry, prose, and magic.
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Pinned
I am made fragile
by the beauty of the stars
by their sharp edges
and fierce burning
a glass heart cracking
beneath the weight
of the sky

#poetry
Whenever I see the punchline “You had ONE job” I become mildly enraged. I’ve never had just one job in all my life. 😂
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
oh, love
surely Heaven
is a place of fierce forgetting
of all the earthly moments
that refused
to hold you
with me

#poetry
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
she is
a symphony
of blood and bone
orbit of a corporeal orchestra
whose tendons thrum like strings

#poetry
November 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
she hopes for hope
the way a summer garden
hopes for rain

#poetry
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
she is
the seed
that cracks the sky
into a clamouring of wings

#poetry
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
November arrives
in filigrees of frost
and pinnacles
of promise

#poetry
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m playing a game today where I get up and accomplish some housework every time my dog leaps off my lap to go bark at something.

Lovelies, I am getting SO much done. 😂
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
she wears
her grief
as a coat
of many
sorrows

it snaps
and swirls
in the storm
of her

but it reminds
her how to
dance

#poetry
November 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
oh, love

we are bower birds
collecting the bones
of too many sayings
left unsaid

our feathers stained
by hues of bruise
[indigo, azure,
and dapplings of plum]

you haunt me
in supernovas of silence
till even my marrow
is rendered numb

#poetry
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
oh, love

the way your smile
scaffolds the sky
till the sun is done
painting it with lights

#poetry
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I am holding
too many words
in the pocket
of my mouth

and this ache
rooted in my chest
speaks of nothing
but empty sky

#poetry
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
she’s made herself
a m o s a i c heart
from the aftermath
of the ricochets

she is shrapnel
spackled together
with achings
of possibility

#poetry
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
love is
always a loss
like the way
we lose
the shadows
love’s light
s c o u r s
from the face
of the world

#poetry
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
she has
a birdsong
kind of smile
and the world
quells to quiet
in its wake

#poetry
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
she is
a collector
of the other shoes

the ones
they dropped
along the way
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
they told her the moon
is made of Swiss cheese
and a mad cow jumped
over the whole damn thing

that wishes live in dandelions
in first stars and falling ones
and a thousand other stories
betwixt and between

then they laughed when
her whimsy whispered
loud and long enough
to be seen

#poetry
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
we bask in the yolk
of the cracked-egg sun
toasting to all we’ve dared
to all we’ve blithely begun

#poetry
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
there is
something lovely
in the way the sky
curls its ample arms
to hold us everywhere
all at once

#poetry
October 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
she is
a dreamer
of tiny horrors
and she’s grown
rather fond of the way
they choose her
and they stay

#poetry
October 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
hope thrills
through her bones
her feet are springs
her arms are sails
s h e l e a p s
and all her burdens
become feathers

#poetry
October 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
she is
an eruption of stillness
tethered to the husk
of a noisy world
that refuses
to hear her

#poetry
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
her bones
are made
of paper

her voice
is made
of ink
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
she is
a burst of berries
upon the tongue
of the world
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Friend: Anyone else drowning in laundry?

Me: I miss drowning in laundry. I am drowned. I’m a ghost haunting my laundry room.

Also Me: *frantically writes notes for a story about a woman cursed to remain on the mortal plane until her descendants complete her unfinished business, i.e. the laundry*
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
love
is the skeleton
in the body of her life

#poetry
October 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM