Bio

Ute Kelly lives and writes in West Yorkshire, England. She started writing poetry during the Covid pandemic and has had poems published in a few different places since, including several poetry journals, the 2022 Ginkgo Prize Ecopoetry Anthology and the Poetry Society's Members' Poetry Competitions in Winter 2023 and Spring 2024. She recently came across Fibonacci poetry in a workshop and enjoyed the challenge of composing this Fibonacci cento.

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Yes

longing unmakes
what it knows:

a place where grasses aren't
Something about the light this time of year

Be with each other, the poet said. The with is its own expanse,

the way snow is a type of grief.
We keep our voices introvert

full of snow
of blue

Of
flight

My Fib is a cento. Please find sources below.

Karen McCarthy Woolf, "un/safe"
Richard Price, "In our nature"

Jakky Bankong-Obi, "ideograms for the hawk-moth and for the aftermath fire"
Philip Gross, "Ask the Hand"

Jenny George, "Carrier Bag"
Ben Wilkinson, "Another Year"

Momtaza Mehri, A Common Gift

Katherine Lockton, "Snow"
Sean Borodale, "Pond Life: On Being Met, Cradled & Netted"

Claudine Toutoungi, "winter gothic"
Faisal Mohyuddin, "Sultan Ahmet Camii"

Sheri Benning, "Of"
Nick Makoha, "flight"