G. Z. KIEFT

author & poet


currently on my mind:

dust

maybe waking up todayand living your lifefeels like wasting it away maybe staying in bedwatching the dust layon the sunlightrelates to trauma you can’t place being told life’s not…

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life sentence

tense against the morning airmy machine gun breath shakes loose betweenmy sheets and my despairmy eyelashes drag acrossmy tear stained pillowwith the screech of a pulled back chairsweat drenched…

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BONE NUIT

second edition out now

This genre-elusive collection of poems and doodles was meant to be enjoyed in the silent eves of October, one each night, until you are drowned in the glow of Halloween.

You’ll read whimsical stories about haunted forests, terrifying tales of carnivores in carnivals, love stories about gothic queens and pumpkin kings, mythical retellings of Greek fables, as well as darker reflections on depression and life after death. Read More


about G. Z. Kieft

read a brief introduction to the author written by his worst critic.

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@gzkieft