PinnedShawn KellerFelling Difficult TreesThe Top Cut: The top cut is the first of two cuts that result in an open faced notch. The notch is made on the side of the tree that faces…Feb 23Feb 23
Shawn KellerThe Last Show at the ColonialIt is the recollection of a fire. It is the creosote memory of a stair.Feb 6, 2023Feb 6, 2023
Shawn KellerHiraeth on Googie AvenueIt arises as a memory cloaked in vapor. Like all dreams do, surrounded by gasoline mist and the smell of tires in the August heat. The…Oct 1, 2022Oct 1, 2022
Shawn KellerWhen We Became As VampiresIt came as a fever in the blood, so long ago none remember the origin. Like chicken pox, a quick virus touch and then over. Another…Feb 10, 2021Feb 10, 2021
Shawn KellerExpatsOf course it makes sense that the retards would be in love because like seeks like. And I still hear the low murmurs as she got on the…Jan 3, 2021Jan 3, 2021
Shawn KellerI Bathe Radley In LanguageI bathe my dog in language. I lift his legs under spigots of nouns and rinse his paws in the flow of verbs. Adjectives mix with the soap…Oct 23, 2020Oct 23, 2020
Shawn KellerThese Foggy MorningsThe sea is coming for us all, we little barnacles clutched to the coasts waiting for the coming tide when the caps melt, the Earth heats…Oct 22, 2020Oct 22, 2020
Shawn KellerThe Radley-Swett LineI live in a land of borders, and the boundaries of my fiefdom, my medieval Brunswick, the Methamphetamine Kingdom, this sovereign land, is…Jul 24, 2020Jul 24, 2020
Shawn KellerThe Frost LineI never saw any children there, just the two of them already old when I was young, a sliver of wood smoke from a chimney in winter, and in…Nov 7, 2019Nov 7, 2019
