Written Tales

  • Riley Kilmore

    Riley Kilmore has worked as a cop, firefighter, and homeschool parent. Their writing draws from a life marked by danger, travel, and unexpected tenderness across shifting worlds.

January 8, 2023

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Riley Kilmore’s poem moves through the Mekong Delta, where a soldier strings his gun with ribbons from a friend’s care package and tastes the cookies they opened before grief could...