KN Magazine: Poetry

Olivia Pierce Graham Shane McKnight Olivia Pierce Graham Shane McKnight

Rapeseed

In Rapeseed, Olivia Pierce Graham reflects on memory, voice, and self-interrogation through lyrical precision and haunting restraint. The poem’s quiet intensity explores how identity and sincerity shift across time—what remains, what disappears, and what still speaks back from the page.

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Frank William Finney Shane McKnight Frank William Finney Shane McKnight

Lavations

In Lavations, poet Frank William Finney distills time, memory, and decay into a single image: the act of washing away what cannot be cleansed. A brief yet haunting meditation on age, impermanence, and the quiet persistence of the past.

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Clark Hays Shane McKnight Clark Hays Shane McKnight

Wounded, The Morning

In Wounded, The Morning, poet Clark Hays captures the fragile beauty and quiet brutality of dawn in an urban landscape. Through imagery of shattered glass and blooming flowers, Hays contrasts destruction and renewal, revealing how even a city shaped like a broken heart can glow with light, resilience, and rebirth.

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Claudia Wysocky Shane McKnight Claudia Wysocky Shane McKnight

Unfinished Exit

Claudia Wysocky’s poem Unfinished Exit explores themes of loss, absence, and the search for closure through vivid, haunting imagery. With emotional honesty, the poem reflects on the missing, the unfinished stories, and the hope that words offer for healing and understanding.

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