HeyJaredThomas Kneeland Poetry
Poetry is a home, and my hope is that we can see poems as a way of finding home after wandering for so long. Come for the poetry. Stay for humanity.
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Instructions For The Little Brown Girl Who Holds The Future (opens the original)
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Hi, Substack (opens the original)
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What’s good, everybody?Tell me, whatcha know good?That’s what my grandmother would ask me as a little boy, back in the 90s (or the 1900s as my 10-year-old daughter likes to put it), as a way to pick my brain, to see what’s really happening up there. The answer didn’t have to be elaborate, but sometimes I’d answer with “I learned how to spell a new word from the dictionary” or, even deeper, “I met a blue woman at the edge of my bunk bed last night,” to which she’d respond, “Oh, that
My Grandmother Transitioned and I've Been Quiet Is All (opens the original)
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I think I knew that this would be the year I’d lose my grandmother. Not because she wasn’t in good health (she actually was pretty healthy, all things considered), but because she’d become very content with the life she lived. She lived a life with God and education at the nexus of her being. She spent her life in service to others: as a pediatric nurse… Read more
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