Carabiner
Lesbians used to
signal to each
other by carrying
their keys on a carabiner,
attached to their belt
loops, a coded
message to
their kin.
Secret transmissions
passing between jangling
metal.

The walls of the closet were closing in when Kelly eventually decided to break free last year; coming out, leaving a tough education role, moving into a campervan and becoming a performance poet. These poems document her extraordinary year of finding herself, freedom, creativity and all the messy parts of being human in between.