Ann Kenny & Kirby Kenny

FACING

                  You  asked  me  a  question.
 
What do you have to say?
 
                  It’s  you.
                  Of  course  it’s  you.
 
You do it for you—
Don’t
Play.
 
                  I’d  be  screwed,  Sugar  Mama.
 
I throw up love
In the light.
 
                  So  show  me  your  dark.
 
Your incest
Love smiles.
 
See my thrashing heart.
It is proof we are different.
It busts the lie clean open—
 
She’s not another me.
 
Woman transfer money gone.
Sister, gone.
Mother, gone.


Twin sisters Ann Kenny and Kirby Kenny are writers and artists who are motivated to seek meaning through creative expression. Their work explores themes of confinement, redemption, and self-discovery. They juxtapose folklore with realism as a means of probing their world. Their work will appear in the first edition of Hell of Fame Magazine and a forthcoming issue of Rogue Agent Journal. Their debut collection, New Myths, will be available in early 2024