One More Day on Earth Together: poems by Kelly Xio

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One More Day on Earth Together is an incantation on how to be together, but "toget / her." This here is a receiving outside objecthood, it is a holding on for life, but also holding on with life, with an / other person whose care and love is a bolster, or a buttress, like "a porch light on for me, my favorite love song." This work is a sweltering, heaving summer day in which nothing and all is possible, and presence is an overpriced ice cream cone held together by small conversations with strangers and passers-by. It melts -- onto your hand, its remnants. And that is all that matters for the moment.

Olga Mikolaivna 

"There's a thrilling plurality to xio's writing: funny, tender, full of delicate aches and roaring joy and whole human lifetimes, shimmery eons in a deceptively small package." 

Aiden Arata

Kelly's writing is propulsive, addictive, funny, and aflame. These lines come at you fast and loose and tight and slow, with the vagaries of connection and disconnection dripping down them like ice cream melting down the cone.

Tommy Pico, Author of Nature Poem 

Someone once said friendship is the purest form of love and when I read Kelly Xio's poems, I know that’s true. “Everything is what you can fit in that tiny pocket of denim jeans” Xio writes, and in her shimmering alchemy the moon, microdosing, girl dinner, aliens, creatine, aching joints, guns, humidity, the kid who just wants the fallen tree branch glued back--nothing, no one, gets left. The tiny denim pocket expands, a world. 

Kate Durbin, Hoarders