Kay Cook

Kay L. Cook holds a BA in Secondary Education, an M.Ed in Special Education, and certification as a school psychologist. Born and raised in Michigan, she is now a long time New Yorker. She focuses much of her writing on miscommunications due to racial, cultural, gender, and mental health differences, and on the endless hope for human evolution. Recent publication of her work can be found in the 2019 summer issue of Rise Up Review.

“Leaving,” “Belief Beyond Seeing” and “Chipping Away”

The sun is not shining at 3am when the phone rings
and I hear the doctor cut your cord to my dreams,
offering no suture, no receiving blanket.
The sun is working somewhere
dictating time with truth or dare while you are falling;
even the moon is hiding.