Kelly Boyker

May Kelly rest in peace.

Poet, poetry editor at Menacing Hedge, sourdough baker, gamer, pickler, fermenter, & exceedingly popular with cats.

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

So happy to have three Twin Peaks poems in Waxwing!

[W. Todd Kaneko @ToddKaneko]

This poem, “B O B to Laura Palmer” by @KMenacing from @WaxwingMag 18. “Dragged up just above the surface of an algoid body of water, the slivery blackness consumes the sloped flesh and slicks into placenta. Who eats who and what happens?”
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[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

he Winter-Spring Edition of Menacing Hedge is finally here!
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[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

Happy Festivus in these times.

[Dior @Dior]

Diana the Huntress is reborn for #DiorCruise 2022 https://t.co/uEKvWje0QK by Maria Grazia Chiuri, her #DiorSilk scarf and gold-finish 'Dior Vibe' earrings with 'Dio(r)evolution' ring giving a precious glow to the celebratory season.
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[Alessandra Bava @alessandrabava]

So happy to announce that @dlseuss's "four-legged girl" in Italian translation is coming soon. Thank you to Diane for the trust and love. Thank you to Adelaide Basile for being my translating partner-in-crime. Thank you to Ensemble Edizioni, my publisher. #DianeSeuss #HerKind

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

"How many rounds of

how could you do this to me?

can I traverse, in blindfolded travels of
pain, of pain, before I lose my mind?

Not many more. I have to learn to
disdain hope, dispense with its sickness
of seductions: there is no you."

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

The Fall Edition of Menacing Hedge 2021 has arrived.
@brooks_barbour @nonvanilla @lorelei.bacht.writer @laurendp_writes

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[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

@djvorreyer @MenacingHedge You would be such an essential participant. <3

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

Tomorrow will be the release of the Fall 2021 Edition of Menacing Hedge. We really want to do a Ten-Year Anniversary reading and rent a theater for the event. Everyone who wants to read can read - either live or by Zoom on a big screen. @MenacingHedge

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

"I run my
tongue over your lips to seize new
words. My throat has an upholstered
constellation of slings for weapons
now. The gift is all
mine".
@alessandrabava @MenacingHedge

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[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

@SarahKSilverman Yeah Mr. T. C. ! And while we are at it, let's treat women as chattel and remove their rights to their own bodies. LOL. Good times.

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

Menacing Hedge Best of the Net 2021 Nominations are here! @chadryanframe @MenacingHedge @vkornberg

[Chad Frame @chadryanframe]

Thank you to @KMenacing for the honor! Pleased to have a Best of the Net nomination in my back pocket.

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[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

Menacing Hedge Best of the Net 2021 Nominations are here! @chadryanframe @vkornberg @MenacingHedge

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

"After his shower, he wrote something on
the bathroom mirror.
Now I know I’m going to have to beg for it.

The sheets of this bed. They have me figured out.

Make sure you open my mouth
and look all the way down before you leave.
You won’t believe what you see"

-Ann Pedone

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

It has been a bleak Covid summer. We cancelled the summer edition of Menacing Hedge, but all of the writers so graciously allowed their work to be in the Fall Edition, which will go forward. Thank you so much and so sorry. Summer was our ten year anniversary. @MenacingHedge

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

"I look at the
imprint of that life, the early mornings, or
late nights in motels, eating with a line of
men all of us laughing, none of them asking
why are you out here, little girl, driving in the dark
on the freeway" - from Spring I, by @bloomersea @MenacingHedge

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

"I want to brag that he does not burn toast in the office toaster. That with him, I don't need glasses. I go to him with my naked eye. In fact, I want to say that the glasses no longer work at all, and that I am seeing death tolls on the television again". @justinecteu

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

"You present yourself over the threshold (let us imagine) like a dissident and her happiness sounds like a muffled strangulation (we imagine, further). You are like a grenade in her life, thrown from a distance". *Michelle Reale @MenacingHedge

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

@writesforlife Small breasts. @writescards

[Kelly Boyker @KMenacing]

@dvillella @MayorGinther Exactly what I came here to say. A murdered CHILD.