"If you beam you are / almost beaming. If it is brutal, then brutalish / is a way to live. Lovers never sufficiently love / anything. It's a wildish thing." — "System of Becoming Quite" published in Tin House
Read her work →Kimberly Grey is the author of three books: A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing: Essays, Systems for the Future of Feeling: Poems, and The Opposite of Light, winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize.
Contact Kimberly →"X is standing in the rain. Y is painting X standing / in the rain. This is called an artful gesture. How else / to remember the hurt map we've marked?" - "X Y" published in TriQuarterly
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