Tom Kelly is coordinator for Old Dominion University’s Writers in Community outreach in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2015, he was a finalist for the Gearheart Poetry Prize judged by David Kirby. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southeast Review, Gulf Stream, Gargoyle, FreezeRay, among others. Write to him at thomas.v.kelly@gmail.com
Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly: Big Budget Apocalypse
As old timey Westerns foretold, cowboys reclaimed the dust lands: black bandanas sewn with coyote claws, buzzard plume, King James Bible cutouts cursing the world to come. Next, satellites abandoned air & crashed subtle as heaven -destined skydivers shrugging ripcord disaster. This attracted bystanders: basement-dwelling cyberpunks later reduced to neon puddles. When you wandered the […]
Tom Kelly: Big Budget Apocalypse
As old timey Westerns foretold, cowboys reclaimed the dust lands: black bandanas sewn with coyote claws, buzzard plume, King James Bible cutouts cursing the world to come. Next, satellites abandoned air & crashed subtle as heaven -destined skydivers shrugging ripcord disaster. This attracted bystanders: basement-dwelling cyberpunks later reduced to neon puddles. When you wandered the […]
Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly is coordinator for Old Dominion University’s Writers in Community outreach in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2015, he was a finalist for the Gearheart Poetry Prize judged by David Kirby. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southeast Review, Gulf Stream, Gargoyle, FreezeRay, among others. Write to him at thomas.v.kelly@gmail.com