Brittany Nohra
Little Egret at Cos Strand
I cut prey out of mirrors
with a mouth of blade.
White-wing calligraphy
writes paper dusk,
folds night’s pages
into origami.
Swallow the violence
of my stillness,
marry me
within skin.
Brittany Nohra is a former Californian living in the wild South-West of Ireland. She is a passionate conservationist of indigenous flora and fauna, and her writing focuses on the relationship between women and the natural world. Brittany’s poems have been published in The Ogham Stone, The Tiger Moth Review, The California Quarterly, and The Stony Thursday Poetry Book. Her work was shortlisted for the Hammond House International Poetry Prize in 2021.