Poetry: 1989–1992

1 min readMar 31, 2021

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Genesis

(~1991–1992, Boston)

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Spring

(~1991–1992, Boston)

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Science

(1992, Boston)

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Dream

Always there is the dream from which you wake, blurred on the thin song of an alarm-clock

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For You

I

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Letters

The broad shovel of a leaf furled and bleached on the grass or a cleft in the silver bluffs opening to a valley below,

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To Leave At The Edge of Town

Never tell me when you feel that pull, that tautness that says: I must go. Do not listen for it. That blank

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Motions

Motion One

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Tonight

you can look tonight into the pale folds of evening the smell of woodsmoke muttering in chimneys

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Vessels

(~1992, Boston)

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Stunned, the Winding Snowfall, Surrounding

Simple things, we, wrenching through blankets of snow,

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Distances

You should have known you were ascending into something unheard of when each simple act of reassurance, every time you…

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Poem for Leslie

What dim heat did you find in here, under the soft pillows, under the soiled air? My heart is a room you enter and…

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The Carnival (for Moira)

I believe a carnival can only move slowly, can only be understood in slow motion, like the vivid after-glow of a ferris…

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Colleen Keefe

Written by Colleen Keefe

I’m a Philadelphia based artist, curator and now, apparently, writer. Transgender. Pronouns: they/them. www.colleenkeefe.com

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