Pixelated Stars by Kat Cameron

August 28, 2023
Poem title: Pixelated Stars Poet name: Kat Cameron Poem: Opening ceremony Pyeongchang, Korea. February 9, 2018 starlings swirl in black ideograms on a pale winter sky quadcopters swoop in synced patterns— multi-rotors whirring mechanical murmurations a phosphorous skier surfs sinuous slashes across the hills of Pyeongchang colour-coded combinations flicker in the billions aerial drones float across night’s canvas cut into pixelated stars End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Kat Cameron Kat Cameron is an award-winning poet and short story writer. Her second poetry collection Ghosts Still Linger (University of Alberta Press, 2020) won the High Plains Book Award for poetry in 2021 and was a finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Her collection of short stories, The Eater of Dreams (Thistledown Press, 2019), was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Recent work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Capital City Press Anthology 3, Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, and Vallum Magazine. She lives on Treaty 6 territory and teaches creative writing at Concordia University of Edmonton.