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<![CDATA[Kirenya: Kirenya Studio Shorts]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/s/kirenya-studio-shortshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qINI!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19eb048-fe0d-478e-9730-9ca65ccd4a4b_1280x1280.pngKirenya: Kirenya Studio Shortshttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/s/kirenya-studio-shortsSubstackSun, 14 Jun 2026 20:28:22 GMT<![CDATA[Who Are You]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-who-are-you-shorthttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-who-are-you-shortFri, 12 Jun 2026 14:57:23 GMTSo you’re saying my dreams aren’t real because they are nothing like yours. My thoughts aren’t acceptable because they do not mirror yours. My feelings aren’t valid because they are not how you would feel. Who are you?

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]]><![CDATA[Into Weather]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-into-weatherhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-into-weatherMon, 08 Jun 2026 17:59:11 GMT

A soft, motion-blurred black and white image of a veiled figure with raised arms. The body dissolves into mist and pale haze at the edges, blurring where it meets the background. — A figure choosing to dissolve. Veil, motion, the soft edge where a person turns into atmosphere, the place where one form opens into the next.

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]]><![CDATA[One Mark of Red]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-one-mark-of-redhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-one-mark-of-redMon, 08 Jun 2026 17:24:54 GMT

A minimalist drawing on a cream background. A single fluid black line forms a dancing figure with arms raised, marked by one small stroke of red. Wide empty space surrounds it. — Almost only air, and a single line deciding to be a body. One mark of red, and the whole page leans toward it. I wanted to see how little a figure needs to stay alive.

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]]><![CDATA[The City I Reached With My Eyes Closed]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-the-city-i-reached-with-my-eyes-closedhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-the-city-i-reached-with-my-eyes-closedMon, 08 Jun 2026 17:17:09 GMT

A painterly twilight scene of an old European street in deep blue tones. Tall gothic spires lean against a dusk sky, a few windows glow softly, and a single warm streetlamp lights the empty lane below. — From a lucid dream. This is the city as it felt. The spires leaned. A few windows held their light. Some places open only at this exact blue hour, in sleep.

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]]><![CDATA[What the Light Decides to Keep]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-what-the-light-decides-to-keephttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-what-the-light-decides-to-keepMon, 08 Jun 2026 17:04:05 GMT

A high-contrast black and white photograph of a woman. A hard triangle of light falls across one side of her face and bare shoulder while the rest stays in deep shadow. One hand rests near her chest. — The light arrives at an angle and chooses what to hold. A jaw. A shoulder. The rest stays in its own quiet. I keep returning to the moment a face agrees to be seen.

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]]><![CDATA[Three, and the Long Turn]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-three-and-the-long-turnhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-three-and-the-long-turnMon, 08 Jun 2026 16:55:45 GMT

A sepia pencil drawing of three dancers entwined in a close embrace, their heads gathered at the top. A long train of fabric sweeps down and to the left across the lower frame. — Three bodies finding one motion. The turn lives in the fabric, in the held breath before release. Closeness has its own architecture, and sometimes it looks like this.

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]]><![CDATA[What Becomes of Us]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-what-becomes-of-ushttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-what-becomes-of-usSat, 30 May 2026 17:26:14 GMTSystems complain about shortages while making themselves difficult, hostile, or spiritually expensive for people who could have contributed beautifully. Then they call the absence a pipeline issue, a talent issue, a motivation issue.

Meanwhile, what becomes of the person who is left!

What becomes of us?

Mk⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Harvest]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-harvesthttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-harvestSat, 30 May 2026 01:24:06 GMTA world built on frameworks hostile enough to make sharing feel unsafe has also made sharing unwise.

So the loss of free access is the world’s.

It is incurred by its own arrangement.

Not by meanness in me.

To discount my work in order to feel generous toward a system that would mindlessly harvest it is a betrayal.

Not only of the work.

Of the body that had to make it.

And the body feels it.

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]]><![CDATA[Learning, Again]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-makari-shorts-learning-againhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-makari-shorts-learning-againMon, 18 May 2026 19:24:10 GMTLearning, Again

I gave myself a little star,
I thought I’d come so very far.
Then life came in with tea and pen
And said, “Sweet thing, begin again.”

Oh, I’m learning again,
Round the spiral, round the bend.
I thought I knew, then knew anew—
How funny. How beautiful. How true.

I packed the lesson on a shelf,
Then found it sitting in myself.
It waved at me like an old friend:
“Surprise, my dear. We meet again.”

Oh, I’m learning again,
Round the spiral, round the bend.
I thought I knew, then knew anew—
How funny. How beautiful. How true.

Mk⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Learning, Beautiful]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/learning-beautifulhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/learning-beautifulMon, 18 May 2026 16:05:20 GMTWatching myself learn is beautiful. Realizing I still have to learn what I thought I’d already learned? Hilarious. Okay, frustrating, annoying—and also very funny. Did I just learn something? Beautiful.

Mk⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Urgency and Ripening]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/urgency-and-ripeninghttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/urgency-and-ripeningMon, 04 May 2026 22:48:26 GMTI smiled.

A moment later,
I felt the ache return,
soft and whole.

It stood so near the smile
they could have shared a sleeve.

I remember thinking:

so this is how the heart
carries more than one season.

M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Shared Sleeve]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/shared-sleevehttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/shared-sleeveMon, 04 May 2026 21:32:45 GMTI smiled.

A moment later,
I felt the ache return,
soft and whole.

It stood so near the smile
they could have shared a sleeve.

I remember thinking:

so this is how the heart
carries more than one season.

M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Sadness Still in Its Coat]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/sadness-still-in-its-coathttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/sadness-still-in-its-coatMon, 04 May 2026 20:30:31 GMTI have known the feeling
of relief arriving
with sadness
still in its coat.

They do not always wait
for separate days.

Sometimes they enter together,

and I become the room.

M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Water in the Mouth]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/water-in-the-mouthhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/water-in-the-mouthMon, 04 May 2026 19:29:46 GMT“Say it,”
one part of me said.

“Keep it close,”
said another.

I held the sentence
in my mouth like water,
feeling its weight shift
with each breath.

By the time I spoke,
it had changed shape
enough to belong to me.

M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Threshold Weather]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/threshold-weatherhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/threshold-weatherMon, 04 May 2026 18:14:50 GMTI wanted to go.
I wanted to stay.

So I lingered
at the threshold

until the truth of my body
began speaking
in temperature.

M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[The Lantern and the Exits]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/the-lantern-and-the-exitshttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/the-lantern-and-the-exitsMon, 04 May 2026 17:11:32 GMTThe mind is talented
at producing a chorus.

One thought enters
with a lantern.

Another arrives
counting exits.

One names possibility.
One names cost.

I’m learning to listen
for the thought
that makes more room,

and for the one
that knows
which room
I am actually standing in.

M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Edges]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/edgeshttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/edgesMon, 04 May 2026 16:10:47 GMT“I am ready,” I thought.

Something in me leaned forward.

Something else
gathered the edges of itself
and held.

I stayed there for a while,
feeling both movements
inside the same body,
each one sincere.

The strange part was this:

neither feeling asked to win.
They only asked to be felt.
M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[Tenderness at the Threshold]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/tenderness-at-the-thresholdhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/tenderness-at-the-thresholdMon, 04 May 2026 15:05:56 GMT

Part of me reached.

Part of me kept still.

For a moment
I called that confusion.

Then I saw it more clearly:

one impulse wanted the thing,
the other wanted tenderness.

M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[The Chair by the Door]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/the-chair-by-the-doorhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/the-chair-by-the-doorMon, 04 May 2026 14:03:33 GMT

One thought said, “Go slowly.”

Another said, “You have already waited long enough.”

I gave both of them a chair.

Then I noticed
only one of them
kept looking at the door.

M⟲

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]]><![CDATA[After the Last Sip]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-after-the-last-siphttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/kss-after-the-last-sipMon, 04 May 2026 13:03:56 GMT

Black-and-white surreal artwork of a glowing figure in a long dress walking away beside a pedestal table holding a martini glass. — She leaves in light, and the glass keeps the hush a little longer.

A black-and-white surreal artwork of a glowing figure in a long dress walking away beside a pedestal table with a martini glass. Minimal composition, sparkling light, and vintage glamour create a stylish, dreamlike pause

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