Kay Newhouse is a member of the executive boards of both DC Peace Team and the World Swing Dance Council, and a supervisor of science teacher candidates at the University of Maryland. Her business, KAYWCS, focuses on social dynamics and west coast swing. She is frequently delighted by the parallels between writing poetry and improvisational partner dancing. @KayWCS / kaynewhouse.com


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My loneliness creeps slowly ‘round
The neighbors’ windowed houses and the empty gravel streets.
My favorite glasses are the ones I lost
The first week that this virus kept us all at home.
My eyes have changed their strength. I cannot see [...]

Abbraciame

[...] Black dots and ticks stick rage to page like butter-
flies or wasps taped down and caught and kept [...]

Leavings

Count the time from lightning flash 
And multiply by distance till the thunder
Rolls its way inside the house and rattles all the dishes on the shelves.
In case of nuclear disaster, ready.gov says that there is time
(I read) To go inside [...]

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