Kelly Tweeddale's Writings
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Poem
Dec.14.2010
Snow. I love how it demands that we pay attention,how we instantaneously rearrange our plans. I love how it transforms shades of gray,bleaching out shadows, leaving nowhere to hide. I love how each footstep leaves an imprint,making it easy to be found, if someone was looking.
I love how there is no ambivalence,no illusions of warmth, no promise of color.I...
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Poem
Sep.04.2010
I had a boyfriend.He asked me to go steady with a ring wrapped up in a note.A week later I returned the note and the ring.
I had a boyfriend. He tried to kiss me underwater at a pool party.I kissed him back.
I had a boyfriend.He took me to my first dance and then wanted to plan our future.I went to the river and watched the current instead.
I had a boyfriend.We...
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Poem
May.21.2010
(In honor of poet Gardner McFall, librettist of Amelia, premiering May 8, 2010)
She spells her name with one “e”even though I imagine her with a gardener tool in hand;the type used to excavate graves of various depthsfor dead-looking bulbs promising resurrection in some later season.
Within the fertile soil she plants words of “loss,” “fear,” “abandonment”in...
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About Kelly
Kelly Hargrave Tweeddale was born on April 12, 1960, exactly 100 years after the beginning of the Civil War. It is no wonder that her mother scrawled next to her name in her baby book "warrior" and she has lived up to the name by surviving many a battle and...
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Kelly’s Favorite Books
Whatever I am currently reading.