Kelly R. Samuels is the author of the full-length poetry collection All the Time in the World (Kelsay Books) and two chapbooks: Words Some of Us Rarely Use and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with work appearing in The Massachusetts Review, Juked, RHINO, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and Court Green. She lives in the Upper Midwest. Find her here: https://www.krsamuels.com/
I learn the blueberries I am eating this morning were flown in from Chile. They have a dusting of white on them and are firm, some with little nubs of green where they’ve been picked by someone I will never meet. Their origin is found on the container, but also in the article I have read about other fruits from… Read more →
I know I’m in trouble when I start dreaming of a man harvestingovaries with a melon baller, the women just sitting at the table,waiting their turn. I wake, seeing I’m in for it in the real world,maybe already in the middle of it. I haven’t been drinkingor eating those Thai noodles with the spicy peanut sauce I love.I’ve been good,… Read more →
You would call, quotingthe let us go, then, you and I—with lessthan ten, but eyes for watching.Two girls on a benchin a space without weather,we made up stories about othersand all the love having gone.And wasn’t it sad—how the nightstretched out before them?Later we’d walk in the wrongdirection, pet the cashmere and longfor the pair, order smoothiesand drink them down,… Read more →