Kay Husnick

Joined December 2017

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Where I Belong
When did going back home start to feel like a vacation in the past? I can see memories playing out in front of me again everywhere I go, my first kiss under the streetlight up the road from my mother's house, running stairs during volleyball practice by the middle school entrance,
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
To be taken at face value
My writing won't tell you how I feel. It will tell you how I might feel, how I could feel, how I definitely do not feel, the intrusive thoughts that just had to get out, the things I'd never say, maybe what I think you might expect,
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Moving On
I need a fresh start. While you move backward, a failed attempt at traveling back in time, I am moving on, leaving your problems in the past.
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
A Life in 25 Lines. Top Story - September 2023.
Hello, world. I'm learning you exist, learning I exist, and I am happy, but you keep changing. I'm not sure I can keep up.
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
The Wizarding World of Plotholes
I don't understand the hype around the Harry Potter series that has people so torn about boycotting it for the author's hateful opinions. J.K. Rowling never was a good writer; she just built a moderately interesting world perfect for fan fiction to fill the gaps she left in her work.
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Critique
Shouldn't Have
I should have kissed you. I was kicking myself on the train, wondering if you were too, thinking in that moment, this could be something,
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Character Development
Someday, you'll learn you can't live in multiple realities, denying the truth and making accusations but referencing the things you had denied as fact a few days later
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Draft: De-cluttering
*If you want to skip ahead to the part I want feedback on, scroll down to the header labeling the drafted poem below. Lately, I have been having trouble with endings. Starting poems or prose is the easy part. A line comes to me and often starts as a quick note in my phone. It's easy to run with it, but where do I stop and how?
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Critique
Ode to the Nightstand
I expected it to be gone, taken apart and packed away in the back of the Subaru by the time I got home, but instead, it became one of the only things you told me would be left behind on purpose
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
On Their Self Destruction
They treat the things they love like tools they shouldn't have to maintain, replaceable until one actually breaks. Usable. Abusable,
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Love in four-letter words
I want you to come home come home, open the door, and tell me you want to try I want you to hold me kiss me, soft and slow, and
By Kay Husnick2 years ago in Poets
Distractions
Disney+ and Hulu are never just background noise, but I keep turning on cartoons and old TV Shows like I don't know The consequences. I won't write or
By Kay Husnick3 years ago in Poets