Easter Sunday
children hunting eggs
in the graveyard

:::

south wind—
please don’t send me any more
mosquitoes

:::

silent Quaker meeting
yet all around us
ticking clocks

:::

stashed in a box
with things never to be
thrown out
a “write in Spiro Agnew
for vice president” pencil

Kelley White,

pediatrician, has worked in inner-city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, and JAMA among others. Her newest collection of poetry, NO. HOPE STREET, was published by Kelsay Books in 2022. Her most recent chapbook, A Field Guide to Northern Tattoos, was released in 2021 by Main Street Rag Press. She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, and is Poet in Residence at Drexel’s Medical School.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Five Poems by Kelley White in Lothlorien Poetry Journal (17 May 2023)

⚡ 5 x 8 in Philadelphia Stories (27 July 2023)

⚡ I Am Losing My Hands, a prose poem in Cleaver (20 December 2021)