Remember that August, your emergencies? Her tooth pierced your cheek in the pool. A lacrosse stick slit your eyebrow at camp. Your head slammed the ground, the swing’s limb broke, you were pumping so strong. ER, three days in a row. Birdlike, I hovered. Stitches to mend your cheek-hole, stitches to knit your brow. Doctor […]
Kelly DuMar
Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry collections, including jinx and heavenly calling, published by Lily Poetry Review Books in March 2023. Her poems are published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush, Glassworks, Flock and more. Kelly teaches a variety of creative writing workshops, in person and online, and she teaches Play Labs for the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Kelly produces the Featured Open Mic for the Journal of Expressive Writing. Reach her at kellydumar.com
Snug
Wishes
3 cents
Our Little “rush”
Selections
In blistery sunshinethe Shellpicker’s gown gleams white with black- inked cowries and conches trumpets and moons. She guards her beach and checks each shell to sort the living from the lost.
Lightning Welk
Furious
Unicorn
Broken
Everything you love and lose washes back to shoreon a freak wave, it is believed from the seas which a poet says are filled with dolls and allher broken bones. Lucky todayI salvage an arm.