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kiley lee
@kileylee.bsky.social
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poet/glass artist
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kissing-chickens.bsky.social
I FINALLY finished this piece of #medieval inspired #stainedglass It took a few months. Lots of painting and firing. It’s even more beautiful in person.
February 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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It’ll either be good, or it’ll pass
November 25, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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hello 💞 process poet, translation teller 🌊
November 16, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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edmondsscanner.bsky.social
Your horoscope for today:
Be like a radio station - broadcast your thoughts, hopes, and dreams out into the world and hope a few folks find your wavelength.
October 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
this poem haunting today for reasons
EXCAVATING Ankh Spice She told me they picked her out specially and I pictured the arcade, the claw machine: her parents, that shiny, cheating hand, and a bright glass room full of silent babies. Her favourite game was archaeologist. I'd bury whatever I could steal, leave it there to weather. Ordinary things, she said slyly, are worth more if you lose them, then find them. Triumphant, filthy, we'd cradle the unearthed, gift them new names, so instinctive our wild mouths stayed full with their spells. A brother's knife, lumped to clotted rust: the Saint Lazarus sword. Barbie's leg, dog-gnawed and spilling clay marrow - homo tenderfoot. Lamb bones, doll's shoes. Every kind of body. When I'd planted a skull, she'd hiss with satisfaction at the find, lovingly tuck her fortune cookie label in behind the eyes. I, not being a treasured thing, not being a chosen prize, was not meant to know them. I never told her she talked in her sleep, her tongue sifting through dirt. Solo, Mama, slurs the wookie of her growl. I'll find you. The moon on her lips rounding out Home. That night when I stood at the window, counting the stars and plotting the map. How she crow-called behind me: The claw, the claw. Don't let it drop me.
October 18, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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maureenthorson.bsky.social
“Metaphors are serious nitpickers” A poem by Camille Guthrie.
October 24, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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donatedwords.bsky.social
“fever dream in terrible semi-franglais” is no. 7 of 7 donated words poems with past & new words from longtime contributors! it will be in ASOOPP3!

💗 @mathewyates.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @merrildsmith.bsky.social Patrick @kileylee.bsky.social Jenna

PDF: tinyurl.com/feverinfr

#poetry
square image has abstract black and white background. white rectangular text box is in center (longer vertically). it contains the poem “fever dream in terrible semi-franglais” in black font. donated words are in bold within the poem and contributor names are in bold in the credits. author name is italicized. text reads as follows: fever dream in terrible semi-franglais a witness to a cleaned-up mess malgré the disembodied orange basilisk of dreams gone steady as a riot of snakes and their fanging sans anti- venom & the sick is a bad grey/ mal gris pour long- temps in tepid temps et rain- forest sweat depuis winter, mon dieu! K Weber Thank you to all participants in the 7th of 7 poems in a series incorporating past and new words from longtime contributors! Mathew Yates - witness from A Sum of Our Poetic Parts: Vol. 1 Tom Snarsky - malgré Merril Smith - disembodied from SCREAMWORDK (alt text cuts off - contact me if needed!)
May 14, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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midwesternskirt.bsky.social
new donated words poem!

thank you:

Patrick Dorsey
Melinda Farrar
Ashley Elizabeth
@kileylee.bsky.social
Natalie Kocsis
Misty Hudson
Douglas Menagh
@luaz.bsky.social
Millie Hudson
Joe Liston - coerced
donatedwords.bsky.social donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social · Mar 17
here’s 1 of 7 donated words poems that use past & new words from longtime contributors!

”Hightail” will appear in the forthcoming FREE online collection: ASOOPP3!

Ashley Elizabeth - Kiley Lee - Douglas Menagh - @luaz.bsky.social & more!

PDF: tinyurl.com/hightailpoem

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square image background of abstract design in grayscale. white rectangular text box is in center. it contains the poem “Hightail” in black font. donated words are in bold within the poem and contributor names are in bold in the credits. text reads as follows: Hightail This brisk walk is crisp and banter makes us breathless. There is synchronicity in our steps as we approach the steepest magnitude of undisclosed ends. No time to play hopscotch. Can’t or won’t stop. Don’t stop. Don’t look back now. You’ll dizzy on your own threadbare edges; vertigo- going-gone. I scout the future and hope for at least one more chiaroscuro of an evening’s golden hour. But we leave these sidewalks in their fading, chalk-dusted standstill. I cannot go back to my old mending places and sew a story back to a clean, decorative finish. We keep kinetic as the clock has coerced us to move, move, move and stop for no scuff or scuffle. K Weber (alt text cut off contributor names - contact me!)
March 17, 2024 at 4:41 PM
kileylee.bsky.social
I miss my baby so much 💔
November 9, 2023 at 11:59 AM
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I love living the same hour over again
November 5, 2023 at 3:16 AM
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I get to see Aurora today 💕💕💕 AND she gets to meet her uncle :))))
November 4, 2023 at 12:42 PM
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donatedwords.bsky.social
SCREAMWORDK is here! 
tinyurl.com/screamwordk2...
🧡💜🖤💜🧡

8 new poems written between 2021-2023! 58 people contributed! 76 items were donated for me to include in these poems (words & more!).

THANKS READERS & COLLABORATORS!

more in the thread (bear with me!)!

#poetry

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digital book cover image for SCREAMWORDK. most of the cover is in various shades of black, white and grey with various contributed words in many fonts and sizes. near the middle of the cover, a charcoal grey banner cuts through at a slant going up from the left side to the right. it contains a scary-looking orange font that looks like it is melting. it reads SCREAMWORDK.
November 3, 2023 at 9:47 PM
kileylee.bsky.social
one thing about me is, I miss bread bowls
October 30, 2023 at 12:42 AM
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“The Happening” is the 2nd SCREAMWORDK poem this yr! FREE PDF w/ all SCREAMWORDK poems: SOON!

words from:
@kileylee.bsky.social
@psmwrites.bsky.social
@melissacuisine.bsky.social
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
Millie
Cheryl
Dave
@glenn-a-barker.bsky.social

selected by:
@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
white pg w/ black border & scratchy marks in corners. poem is left-justified at top. credits are bottom center. title underlined. donated words in bold thru poem. contributors also bold. The Happening A late cackle scrapes open the front door. Wind walks in and out: a fantasm pacing the porch and foyer. Follow the crunch of leaves to the gate. It plays eerily; a calliope with din’s bent, low tones. Murky mirrors flood puddles but show no ghost. Fear enters the air. A cornucopia over- turns on a nervous November’s table: the spills and spoils abundant. Anxiety has coagulated any sense of smooth safety. No ease breathes here; life’s climbed back into broken coffin, atop toppled catafalque. K Weber Thank you to these hauntingly cool participants! Karen Pierce Gonzalez selected these 8 donated words: Kiley - cackle Preston - fantasm Melissa - crunch Robert - calliope Millie - murky Cheryl - cornucopia Dave - coagulated Glenn - catafalque
October 18, 2023 at 7:53 PM
kileylee.bsky.social
I may unexpectedly be in the NICU, but I’m stable and I’ve got two of my favorite people sleeping comfortably in the room with me ❤️
October 15, 2023 at 3:09 AM
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October 12, 2023 at 11:50 PM
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lightened my roots and now everyone is ready to fight me
September 28, 2023 at 2:46 AM
kileylee.bsky.social
finally got to say “bc I’m older and have been doing it for longer” today
September 7, 2023 at 9:13 PM
kileylee.bsky.social
this most recently completed mosaic duo should make a fine introduction to my stained glass work

I break things and then put them back together, nice to meet you
two stained glass mosaics, white flowers with a blue green background
September 7, 2023 at 1:38 AM
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poetcamp.bsky.social
Love planning the morning jumpstarts for Poet Camp. So many beautiful beginnings!
“A Blessing for Stocked Fish” by Cecily Parks [full text of poem in Field Folly Snow]
September 6, 2023 at 1:32 PM
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hello :)
luaz.bsky.social Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · Sep 6
Hey everyone, please welcome my friend @kileylee.bsky.social ! She is a poet and also an amazing stained glass artist. I hope we get to see some of her work here. I am so glad you came over, Kiley!
September 7, 2023 at 12:35 AM