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Jennifer Kite-Powell
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Jan 29

Stryofoam memories

I found some memories of me on an old styrofoam cup. I forgot I kept that cup. It had perfectly sized bite marks all the way around the rim, petrified over time by the benzene and styrene oozing into the dimples as I had chewed around its perimeter. It had…

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Styrofoam memories
Styrofoam memories
Poetry

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Jan 12

The reckoning

Spend your soul.

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jan 8

DO17

DO17 I ordered some ribbon on Amazon for a project destined to be a magnificant objet d’art. My intentions were not the best because I knew my track record for magnificent art looked a lot like Charlie Brown’s record for good dates with Lucy. …

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DO17
DO17
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Jan 8

Made

I got a deck of cards for Christmas. They looked like regular, standard issue playing cards at first glance. I could smell cheesy, salty trans fat snacks of Frito-Lay and taste the heavily poured whiskey sours that were light on the sour. I heard the laughter of card table sarcasm…

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Made
Made
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Dec 12, 2022

These two

I asked the universe to deliver my man to me. Two days later, the universe tossed these two onto my shoreline. These two translates into the Frenchman and the Brit who materialized close to same time but arrived in different cars. The Frenchman sent his missive by casually sliding into…

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These two
These two
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May 15, 2022

Yo come mariposas

Last week I ate a roost of butterflies against my will. My mouth was closed, but they found a way in through my neural pathways when I saw you. They took a deep dive into my bloodstream that flowed directly into my heart, jumped onto an airstream coming from my…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Mar 23, 2022

Stuff breaks. Next.

People save all their good dishes for special occasions. Then they die. Life is special. Use your dishes.

Poetry

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Jan 9, 2022

Incantations of beasts

These beasts were not beastly. No more so than humans are beasts or behave beastly towards others. These beasts didn’t come for us. No one knew where they came from. One day they just appeared. Swimming in a channel that was made from war by men who acted like beasts. …

Short Story

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Incantations of beasts
Incantations of beasts
Short Story

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Nov 3, 2021

Frayed ends

Frayed ends It’s messy. It’s tangled. It’s ugly. It’s knotted, full of chaos. You want to be free but can’t find a way out of the fray you created to…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Sep 3, 2021

Inertia

I don’t know how to sit still for long. I like to flee when it gets unbearable. I’m not ready to process anything because it feels like nothing matters except how I feel and I can’t remember if I know how to feel or if that is in fact, feeling. …

Poetry

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Inertia
Inertia
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Jennifer Kite-Powell

Jennifer Kite-Powell

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I am a poet, author, podcaster & Forbes senior contributor. My work www.jenniferkite-powell.com or listen to the podcast: www.tinylittlevictoriespodcast.com

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