"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 including Systems for the Future of Feeling (2020) and A Mother is an Intellectual Thing: Hybrid Essays, forthcoming from Persea Books in 2023.
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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