Kay Kennett

sentimentalist | feminist | poet

Sober Winter

February 7, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Waiting on a slow line at dinner hour,
air hunger befalls me, symptomatic
of nothing less than a moral panic.
Life’s too short for gas station flowers
and boxed wine. But: How to be sober
in a winter darkened by pandemic?
Strain the breath before it becomes tannic
and dry, lest it drive me to another

Gathering Rose Petals

October 28, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

to be romantic

to steep in bath water

to float in a cupped hand

to read into

to press in a book and forget

to remember today more than other days

to remember what I like to do

to remember who I like to give rose petals to