you were sky blue cyan aquamarine you were azure argentinian you were alice baby and yonder byzantine and carolina capri powder embedded with trilobite glitter nylon for slip cerulean chelsea chlorine cobalt cornflower turquoise in a mirror of the girls’ bathroom […]
Kelle Groom
Kelle Groom’s fifth poetry collection Book of Miracles, will be published in the Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, Spring 2027. Her previous collections include Spill, Five Kingdoms, Luckily (both Florida Book Award recipients) from Anhinga Press and Underwater City (University Press of Florida). Groom is also the author of a memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster) and How to Live: A Memoir in Essays (Tupelo Press). Her free monthly column on writing is “The Continuous Life”: kellegroom.substack.com.