"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 two books, Systems for the Future of Feeling, forthcoming from Persea Books in 2020 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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