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Delaney Kochan

Delaney Kochan

(Mythology)

Today we danced in the kitchen the living room the bedroom. You held me and turned circles for ages, never feeling the hole we wore in the…

Dec 16, 2020

(Mythology)

Dec 16, 2020

Delaney Kochan

(Psalm for Cameron Peak and RMNP Burn Area)

Testify to the trees, says the Lord your God!– as I descended from the snowy pass. Tell them, “Be glad, for the Lord is King of all, the…

Nov 23, 2020

(Psalm for Cameron Peak and RMNP Burn Area)

Nov 23, 2020

Delaney Kochan

(Heating the House)

My furnace blows like a winter storm. The kind you hear on the prairie or in the woods, where sometimes the wind catches on the douglas…

Oct 19, 2020

(Heating the House)

Oct 19, 2020

Delaney Kochan

BLM, Native Lives Matter, Illegal Lives Matter, Gay Lives Matter, In-utero Lives Matter, Homeless…

I am lighting a candle to light fire in your mind, miles away in a jail cell.

Sep 21, 2020

BLM, Native Lives Matter, Illegal Lives Matter, Gay Lives Matter, In-utero Lives Matter, Homeless…

Sep 21, 2020

Delaney Kochan

(Translator)

Two shaded, but humid minutes to hand over all the colors in my head, the murky still-frame thick fog in many colors: my forehead-to-palm…

Aug 21, 2020

(Translator)

Aug 21, 2020

Delaney Kochan

(Why Stars are Silver)

Imagine stars full of sage. The spinning spheres blooming with soft bunches, quiet and serene. These falling gardens, slowly leaking…

Jul 27, 2020

(Why Stars are Silver)

Jul 27, 2020

Delaney Kochan

(Womanhood)

Sometimes I see fractured frames when piano music plays. The notes are heavy steps trying to fly. Again and again jumping off the roof…

Jul 3, 2020

(Womanhood)

Jul 3, 2020

Delaney Kochan

??

Today I wrote down a list of questions.

May 22, 2020

May 22, 2020

Delaney Kochan

(Nature–Power)

We are foraging for courage like we forage for mushrooms – on our knees, hands stretched out in front of us.

May 10, 2020

(Nature–Power)

May 10, 2020

Delaney Kochan

(As Night Comes)

Did you know that the night is velvet? And that the Lord made a light to rule over its hours? Nothing about nighttime is chaos. Darkness…

Mar 31, 2020

(As Night Comes)

Mar 31, 2020

Delaney Kochan

Delaney Kochan

Lover of lyric and fragmented essays. Writing roots in poetry; moving toward practice in longform. Find more at https://www.delaneykochan.com.

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