Two Poems by Carella Keil

 

Stilettos in the Rain

 

Seahorses with wings

can’t decide between sky

and water

so stay on my mind.

 

Butterflies sleeping on telephone wires

candles melting in the rain.

 

Stilettos anticipate a long night

dancing to vodka lullabies.

 

(Originally published in Shuf Poetry Issue 10 Summer 2022)

 

 

infinity

 

at the edge

of the black hole

 

my heartbeat

 

stretches

                 to

                        infinity

 

(Originally published in Shuf Poetry Issue 10 Summer 2022)

Carella Keil is a poet and digital artist who splits her time between the ethereal world of dreams, and Toronto, Canada, depending on the weather. Her work involves themes of mental health, nature and sexuality, often in a surrealist tone. Carella is the recipient of the Stanley Fefferman Prize in Creative Writing (2006) and 2nd place winner in the Open Minds Quarterly BrainStorm Poetry Contest (2017). Recently, her work has appeared in Columbia Journal, Margins Magazine, Wrongdoing Magazine, Shuf Poetry, Myth & Lore, Solstice Literary Magazine, Deep Overstock, Paddler Press, Burningword, Nightingale & Sparrow, Querencia Press, Stripes Literary Magazine, Writeresque and Free Verse Revolution. Forthcoming publications include Glassworks, Fragmented Voices, Door is a Jar, Grub Street, Boats Against the Current, Sunday Mornings at the River, Musing Publications, Sheepshead Review, MONO, Superlative Literary Journal, Troublemaker Firestarter and Vocivia, among others.

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