The mother was a woman who was a forest fire.
Clara Otto
CLARA OTTO (they/them) is a queer writer living on the ancestral and unceded lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Currently, they are an MFA student at the University of British Columbia. Their work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Puritan, Plentitude Magazine, Foglifter Press, and elsewhere.