Brigit Pegeen Kelly was the author of The Orchard (American Poets Continuum, 2004), Song (BOA Editions, 1995), which was the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets, and To The Place of Trumpets (1987), which was selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals, including Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and Yale Review, and her work was chosen for the 1993 and 1994 volumes of The Best American Poetry.
Poetry
Winter 2001
Windfall
There is a wretched pond in the woods. It lies at the north end of a piece of land owned by a man who was taken to an institution years […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Two Boys
The boy drowned in the bog. Not a pretty sight. Not a pretty end. And it no accident. And him A stranger in town. Rank the berries in the bushes. […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
The Satyr’s Heart
Now I rest my head on the satyr's caved chest, The hollow where the heart would have been, if sandstone Had a heart, if a headless goat-man could have a […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
Dead Doe: I
for Huck The doe lay dead on her back in a field of asters: no. The doe lay dead on her back beside the school bus stop: yes. Where we […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Rose of Sharon
The heart is the core of the flesh. The flesh's engine. The flesh's garden. The flesh's womb. The heart Must be borne and born and bare. Rose of the flesh. […]
In Memoriam
Dead Doe: I
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Summer 1991, Vol. XIII, No. 3 for Huck The doe lay dead on her back in a field of asters: no. The doe lay […]