Nadine Klassen (she/her) is a German poet and author of the chapbook Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). Her work focuses on identity, mental health/ trauma and relationships. It has appeared in The Write Launch, Kissing Dynamite, Homology Lit and others. She lives in her hometown with her fiancé and their dog.
His Water Walz is a black and white photograph being coloured in by my mother. The one her father drove to take in the next village in their family car, back in the 70’s. He’s drawn to the city, what can I say. He moves like the fumes of arrival — loneliness has come to him & he is dancing… Read more →
That maple leaf shows on your ribside; a fallen hand, outlawed from heaven. Do I believe that she loved you? — sure, but she was young, and we’re all stupid when we’re young. You plucked its stem like country from continent — flew to Australia to live in a van, & made of it a council of bristles. Covered your credit card details… Read more →
I find my blessings in his hip bone & sing & sing again, tomorrow. His gender, moon age softened & feather to the cry of my given nature. I am no hope, I step away from my own prayers like the silent return of an ambulance. He is no lighthouse, he is what becomes of its light — the rescue, the bell. Therefore I am movement &… Read more →