Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Juked, Fugue, Sugar House Review, Ruminate, and Sidereal, among others. Arah is an MFA candidate in creative writing at The Ohio State University where she serves as Art and Wheeler Prize Editor for The Journal. When not writing, she can be found tending a jungle of house plants with her cat, Anakin. Catch her at arahko.com.
Arah Ko
Poetry: "Fireline" by Arah Ko
Arah Ko - March 6, 2022
FIRELINE
My grandfather burned
fields as a boy, starving
wildfires before they tore
into the village. His face,
smoke-smudged, glows
at me in sepia. He knew
fire & witness is a kind
of flame. After his mother
died, he ashed her photographs,
paper wings fluttering
in a cigar box & now he can’t
remember her likeness. I wish