when I came across the heart

—Kylie Gellatly

Seed: The piece is a composition of found poetry using the book The Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter.

Source: The Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter

Kylie Gellatly is a poet living in Western Massachusetts. Her debut collection, The Fever Poems, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2021. Kylie’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Petrichor, La Vague Journal, SWWIM, Malasaña, and The Waking. She is the Poetry Editor of Mount Holyoke Review and the Book Reviews Editor of Green Mountains Review. Kylie is a Frances Perkins Scholar at Mount Holyoke College and has been awarded the Factory Hollow Press Scholarship to the Juniper Writing Institute and two fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center.