Canadian Fires

keith taylor

The moon is red
tonight

and there’s a tang
of pine smoke in the air

from fires out West
2000 miles away

or maybe from those
in northern Quebec

although our winds
don’t usually blow
from that direction.

Keith Taylor’s next book — All the Time You Want: Selected Poems, 1977 – 2017 — will be published in January, 2024 by Dzanc Books. He lives in Ann Arbor.
This piece reflects on the smoke we all lived through in 2023.

Find this piece on page 10 of our inaugural print issue.