Poetry
monachopsis
glass separates selves — this her! this Other! an / off-kilter smile pasted on comes quickly undone / / the corners peel on a clothed mouth. looks / hungry for something,...
how to (re)cover yourself
here’s how: / / grab a hold and tear / as if through skin / rip / the frills off / get impatient and angry / cut / through layers and...
i’d say “i’ll be back” but i never intend to leave
when i go out for dinner with my boyfriend / i worry about many things: / about the threat of men / hetero & homonormative / about the threat of race /...
Excerpt from Antoinette: An Opera
(Beginnings of ball scene) / / du Motier: (bowing a bit too low) Your Highness. / / Louis: Who’s this? / / Marie: Gilbert du Motier. He is one...
Studying a Note to Self
There is a wound and when no one is looking / I lick it. Salt can be metaphor. / I will make your steak taste better? / ...
I Love You AC Slater
1. / AC Slater glides into the room, / he smiles, dimples / break you in two / you are in love, he shoots / a finger gun at you / and...
does being queer engender a queer syntax?
the inconvenient problematics of the coloured fag. / thus this aesthetic of fracture and fragment. / across many cultures, the nobility of surrender. / literary shards stuck wholesale in the throat. /...
Keep It Dark
Who are the goddesses who fell in love / with each other? Which ones were punished / or celebrated with star-dom—captives / flung into the sky to cast nets of light /...
Marian’s Memorial, Plug-In Gallery
One day this will be all of us, / everyone I know and all that’s left: / sitting on plastic chairs in a dim / gallery room, sensible shoes, precise / new...