Sunday, May 18, 2014

Exciting Times

For the first time ever, I've gotten a novel to the point where I'm pretty much happy with it. I edited a novel, guys. Which means that now-- or in about two weeks-- I'm going to send it out to agents.

Since it's encouraged to put a link to your blog in queries, I've started a new blog: http://keliaingraham.blogspot.com It's kind of boring and basic right now, but I want a space where I can be more professional for agents who might be looking at it. Look there for any posts from me in the near future.
Kelia

Monday, March 17, 2014

Poems

Here are two of my favorite poems I wrote for my creative writing class last semester.

The Piano


The worst of it is,
I cannot make a sound.
I’ve never sung a note
with my own free will.
No matter how hard I wish
for the hammer to move,
I still sit quiet
as a coffin,
mirror black and long,
my innards dead when silent.


But when a hand lifts my lid
and presses my teeth-keys,
my string-lungs start to sing.
Breath wafts over me and I
breathe it in,
the smell of someone smiling.
The taste of dust is wiped away
fingers caress my teeth,
my tongue,
my diaphragm
bellows each chord
and I can sing
and I can sing


The lid is lowered down.
The room is shuttered,
all I see is blackness now.
I cannot sing
by myself.





Chocolate dreams


Dove dark chocolate is the
best, and anyone who argues
has never eaten it
while sitting in a cave
in Acadia National Park,
the ocean just a stone
throw away and the pounding
of the waves echoing
throughout your cave,
the cave which you
used to clamber into
with all your sisters
when you were young and
all together.


It’s similar to chocolate mousse
which has to be experienced
at Parson’s Beach,
standing on that bone-dead tree
where you can see the entire
curve of sand, the green-black
sea that has no bottom,
and the marsh grass waving
at you in the wind, hello, hello,
why are you alone today?


I admit I’ve never had
smores while lying right on top
of Cadillac mountain,
all the stars bright over me
the pop and sizzle of a fire
behind my head and voices
singing soothing sounds
that wrap me up and
carry me to sleep, I’ll sleep
when we are all together.



-Kelia

2013

This year, I:

1. Auditioned at 6 schools
2. Went to Canada for the first time, though only for a few hours
3. Got accepted to 4 schools and wait listed for 2
4. Was offered two full tuition music scholarships 
5. Accepted one of those
6. Wrote a very strange novel
7. Worked three jobs during the summer, once going 16 days without a day off
8. Visited a friend in Boston, traveling by train by myself for the first time
9. Drove a jet bike for the first time, and loved it
10. Wrote a very weird novel
11. Went to a Women's Leadership summer program at my college, had a fabulous time and made some great friends
12. Said goodbye to Kennebunk
13. Went to college
14. Made some amazing nerdy friends the second day I was there
15. Met a boy two weeks in
16. Went to six flags for the first time
17. Watched roughly 80 movies
18. Went to a haunted house for the first time
19. Played many games of chess, monopoly, and risk
20. Went to a midnight premiere of Catching Fire and then got breakfast at 3 AM
21. Did some schoolwork in between all that
22. Played three songs in a recital
23. Did not do NaNoWriMo for the first time in nine years, sadly
24. Had all my sisters home for the first time in two years
25. Had a fabulous christmas
26: Wrote roughly 80 poems
27: And so much more.

Wow, this is late. But I wrote it in December and never finished it, so here tis!
Kelia