Katherine Leyton

Katherine Leyton's poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Malahat Review, The Edinburgh Review and The Globe and Mail, among others. She is also the founder of HowPedestrian.ca, a highly unorthodox video poetry blog. She lives in Toronto.

Women-Only Beach, Porto Marina, Egypt

Folds and folds of black cloth drop
and suddenly, a woman.

I watch from
my rented chaise lounge
as she runs to the sea
like any other pussy-on-stilts,
like me.

In the water she opens and closes her legs
to...