origins

By Kelly Norah Drukker

​to dwell
on the rocks
 
like a rough moss
among the scrub
 
of dead things,
beginning

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eclipse

By Kelly Norah Drukker

red fox
in the headlights’ verge
 
              emerges from totality— 
 
 
full moon births
              her cadmium lip
 
            fulvous
            trembling

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Strawberry moon

By Kelly Norah Drukker

Stillborn gift,
the navel’s rip
 
blood’s store
overripe.
 
 
Foxgloves drip
glossy red silk
 
over small
white shoes.
 
 
It’s late— 
I tip my face
 
to the moon’s
unbearable fullness.

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at daybreak

By Kelly Norah Drukker

​a browser crowns
      his silver dawn
with thorns

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Kelly Norah Drukker is a Montreal-based poet and nonfiction writer. She is the author of Small Fires (McGill-Queen’s University Press), a collection of poems that won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Concordia University First Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Petits feux, the French-language translation by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, was published by Le lézard amoureux in 2018. Most recently, Kelly's work has appeared in The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, Burning House Press (UK), and Rabbit Poetry (Australia). Kelly holds an MA in English and Creative Writing and a PhD in interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University.