J-T Kelly
@j-tkelly.bsky.social
poet - https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/like-now-by-j-t-kelly
Ended the day by submitting a chapbook. (It's good!)
🎶I was dreaming of the past
Above us only sky
Nothing to kill or die for
I'm just a jealous guy🎵
My 12 yo daughter approves of my poem. She laughed and asked astonishedly if I really wrote it.
One from me. One from Ron Padgett.
(Autocorrect tried to make him into Ribeye Padgett)
Endless* supply of younger monks to provide 24-hr care and companionship.
*supply is dwindling
One from me. One from Ron Padgett.
(Autocorrect tried to make him into Ribeye Padgett)
happy #smallpoemsunday 💜
if you feel so inclined, you can post a small poem you wrote +/or a small poem you love by someone else :)
here’s a small one by me from a new chapbook manuscript called What Am I Doing Wrong, plus the end of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “Sunday, 4 A.M.” 🐐
Happy Pentecost!
open.spotify.com/track/7EMPVr...
corazón corrosivo
If you don't find existential dread and self-doubt exhilarating, maybe don't be a poet?
The other day I bumped my head on the gabled attic ceiling. It must have been harder than I realized, because a while later I went to a med school graduation party and the new doctor asked me if I was ok because I had blood all over my shirt.
This story will be my response to any bad reviews.
Person Under the Hood
PERSON, CLARIFIED
I became a person
when I loved another person
more than my own person.
Hopefully not too late.
I guess personhood is there
under the hood somewhere.
No, I will not be explaining.
A
B
C
Always
Be
Explaining
Put
that
coffee
down
There's clarity. And then there's inescapability—like a roller coaster.
But obscurity is not a good answer.
Personhood might be. A person, clarified, might be the best universal.
What is a book of poetry. Why would anyone want to read one. Why did I want to write one. I have wasted my life.
Just need a hammock.
Have you read www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/694...
The Rejection of Closure by Lyn Hejinian | Poetry Foundation
“The Rejection of Closure” was originally written as a talk and given at 544 Natoma Street, San Francisco, on April 17, 1983.(1) The “Who Is Speaking?” panel discussion had taken...
www.poetryfoundation.org
When you ask yourself, "What kinds of poems do I want to write?" does yourself have answers for you? What are they?
rare idiom in the wild
Delon pitching woo to Vitti on her balcony. A 2nd Romeo & Juliet reference as the plane trip earlier in the film was randomly to Verona
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Happy birthday, Han! @hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Instacart shopper held all the replacements until just before checkout. There was a flurry of notifications and then they were checked out and no changes possible.
Here I sit eating fat-free triscuits
Have a good Sabbath. I will be at my daughter's first middle school dance
na na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-a-a-ah
Ok, what song is it?
Um, I dunno. Eye of the Tiger?
Yes!
[games we played as kids]
I'm never going to use this in real life
The akin part is that everybody wants a scientific study to lift the veil. But in fact, it takes slow and careful, even disinterested, work to create a grand thing out of the many instances.