Two Poems by Atma Frans

Atma Frans

Atma Frans’ poetry won first prize in Quagmire Magazine’s Poetry Contest, second in Muriel’s Journey Prize and in SCEWS’s Beachcombers Contest, and was nominated for the (Canadian) National Magazine Award. Her work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, TNQ, FreeFall, Prairie Fire Magazine, Obsessed with Pipework, and Lighthouse Literary Journal, among others.

Afterwards I Pick up Fire Eating

Smoke curls

in the cold cave of my mouth

Heat

scorches my wintry tongue

Ashes fall around me

The flame dies

An ice storm of memories

I light another one

A Slipper, an Ankle, a Bare Leg