“In oncoming lights, my veins are dirty strings.”
In the oncoming lane, a child is crying in my headlights.
I hear the sand under my tires, or the faint rasping of breath.
In oncoming lights, my veins are dirty strings. Over time,
everything is, with pale fingers kissed by the thread.
Tytti Heikkinen is a Finnish author with three poetry books in Finland and a translation collection, The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal, released in the United States with Action Books in 2013. Her writings have been featured in Europe, Northern America, and New Zealand, including at Siècle 21 Littérature & Société, Precipice, Flash Frontier, The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry, and Poetry Magazine. In 2023, she was awarded the second prize in the Singapore Poetry Contest. Her chapbook, World Undressed, was released with After Hours Editions and with translator Niina Pollari.
