Kate LaDew

summer's almost over...🍂 my poetry collection 'what it feels like to be run over (mm/dd/yyyy)' is out now 💙📚 (Bookshop preferred if you have the choice): 🔗 westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... Thanks for supporting indie publishing. 🌿 #BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #Poetry

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#vss365 #poetry your blood #travels 12,000 miles new york to la four times over 660,000 gallons a year all this happens right in the middle of you under the safety of your ribs if someone held their ear to your chest they could hear it so don't forget it ba-bump-ba-bump-ba-bump the miracle of you

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#vss365 #poetry #BookSky #WritingCommunity for your moon night vigil a million songbirds orioles, sparrows, tanagers, thrush even tiny warblers, heavy as two nickels, as four pennies, flying 200 #miles to central america sit with me this cloudless october night the sky's nothing but wings

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#vss365 #poetry everything's burning down each spark leads to the next nothing is okay but little pockets of light shine through, bright red #sneakers and clean streets this, too, is real, all these little moments are happening hold them in your hands let your eyes rest on the beautiful things

#vss365 #poetry #BookSky #WritingCommunity the luckiest man in the world doesn't win the #lottery

#vss365 #poetry #WritingCommunity #BookSky sometimes all saints leave behind are bodies just like everybody else then, at the most #unexpected times, I hear your laugh echo and drop everything, running to the sound nothing there but my heart in my throat

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#vss365 #poetry #BookSky #WritingCommunity turn your head, we're passing through the land of the dead make no #sound, keep your eyes to the sky let the dead roll by, remember, as they pass, raising a skeletal hand to the skeleton inside you the dead are waving hello, not goodbye

#vss365 #poetry the fish remembers the #delta, as pain receptors flare along its lip it takes one last look one last gulp of air, before the knife slices through the silver scales of its belly (oh, how the fish could shine!) it blinks one last time, thinks who knows, maybe heaven is a delta

#vss365 #poetry #WritingCommunity #BookSky stay #calm it might not work, none of it might, but there's a small, slight, thin chance and that's what you'll fit yourself into, that's where you'll live at the edge of maybe, at the brink of might (Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Calm, c. 1651)

🪄 And when she feels her own eyelids drooping, Bess leans close to Harry’s photograph, “I’m sorry, my dear, ten years is long enough to wait for any man. Good night. Harry, it is finished,” and extinguishes the red light. 🏮 My story is live today: #WritingCommunity #BookSky #CreativeNonfiction

#vss365 #quake #poetry #BookSky the quaker-ladies quake in their blankets of blue yellow eyes gazing up four-petaled like luck they dance in the wind and the wind dances too no one can see them in their blankets of blue no one but me and no one but you and god in his sky in his blanket of blue

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│ Later, they tried to remember the words, tried to remember the last sounds their mother ever made. 🥀 My new piece, "Queen Charlotte Died in Her Bedroom," is live today on Chewers. #WritingCommunity #CreativeNonfiction #CNF #History #BookSky

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📜🖋️ This piece started with a real historical footnote—an 85-year-old message in a ginger beer bottle—and turned into an exploration of what war steals from love. Read it at brief + incorrect lit: Collection: westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #AmWriting

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🖼️✨ "...her smile a little tremulous... when you're young and happy and all filled up with life and someone asks you to stand still..." 📷🤍 originally from my poetry collection: westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... today on 'brief + incorrect lit': #WritersOfBluesky #Poetry #FlashFiction

📜⚓ "85 years later, a fisherman, off the coast of Essex, dredged up the ginger beer bottle, pulled the rubber stopper out, and retrieved the two messages..." 🌊🍾 Thrilled to share my story featured today in brief + incorrect lit: #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction

Thrilled that 4 of my poems are featured on Midnight Mind's Instagram! ✨ They are included in my poetry collection 📚 "what it feels like to be run over(mm/dd/yyyy)". westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... #PoetryCommunity #BookSky #WritingCommunity

#vss365 #Poetry #Fall #BookSky #autumnal windblown eddies crinkling, cracking, crunching the susurration lulls us into dreaming

With Kate's permission, I read this poem today on the Story of Writing podcast. The piece just hit me on my first reading of it, here, on BlueSky. Heartfelt thanks to Kate for allowing me to include it in the podcast. If you'd like to hear my reading of the poem, it's at: storyofwriting.com

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