HeyJaredDeborah’s Substack
My personal Substack News and information about my poetry publications can be found here: https://www.deborahkaykelly.com
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Aug 6, 2026
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Look it Up (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Groans from between my tonsils wag my uvula I said uvula and no one wants to look that up Were so many cats killed nine times by a dictionary? My cabin roof in wind racket that puts off visitors like a thought not paid-for a word not taped to the tip of everyone’s tongue What is the term for that? As if I hold the unattainable like a dripless candle as if curiosity doesn’t hum when stroked on the back <div class="captioned-
Air Travel (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Really, we buy each other’s pretzels. But listen to me complain, not yet tossed in the hull, in chains, not yet much in danger of being warehoused in Louisiana, dropped in Uganda, Guantanamo Bay. Can wings even be a metaphor for freedom anymore? It is polyester balaclavas, now, on hired hijackers. In the name of frozen water, let’s just say. Know, our steering problem cannot be solved by a dream of right-left balance, not f
Evergreen Review (opens the original)
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Neighbors (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published I know three or four of you would eat me if you were enough hungry but I’m glad you’re scraping bark with your claws pouncing on elk sorting out your pack’s order And I need to know you’re there feeding and trees still grow by fingering the soil for water all of which I hear since I stopped naming each species as if I were Adam As if your life or mine depended on being named language as instrument of measurement an independ
Notebook, 12 June to 19 June 2026 (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedAll week I sit with my glasses on, eyes-first into influx from journalists, public historians, political analysts, tacticians. I grope that universe, seek details. What is knowable must be known. My brain seeks patterns, in explanations for our wars, again, gets justifications, rebuttals. And for corruption, the justifications, rebuttals. What comes into focus are vice lords. ・ Have we ever really known the enemy? Vice lords
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