Sarah Mackey Kirby is a Kentucky poet and writer. Her first poetry collection, The Taste of Your Music (Impspired), will be published in May 2021. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Impspired Magazine, Chiron Review, Connecticut River Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She and her husband live in Louisville. https://smkirby.com/  Like Freed Feet When you see me you still tell me I’m beautiful like you used to during my inexplicable pleather pants, peach lip gloss, showing off my naturally 80s hair, out-to-hip-hop-dance days. And you still give me that damn-I-love-you look. The one you gave me when you used … Continue reading Sarah Mackey Kirby