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ALT A picture of Yucca with a blue sky and clouds in the background. The photo is attributed to Michael Yantis on Unsplash.
ALT I'm most alive those time-stretched mornings where mayflies drop in death and the dried swarm smells of wharf-wood, where clouds are hand-raked and copper hedgerows mirror the limpness of Mojave sand, a small brown owl crawls back in the cool burrow, full stomached, from its beak a two-note coo gusts through yucca spine, juniper bark, longhorn beetles eat elderberry leaves in the valley. I miss that valley heat, the scent of manure and semi-truck diesel, of chlorine and my mother's pool-wet cheek. my neighbor with a shovel scrapes a possum off the road, iron skips across asphalt, black eyes like stigmatas, gray-brown fur left in the street, a ratking of fingers reach out its stomach and like this underbelly of young death, we long for our mothers to breathe again, strong as bird lime.
ALT “As I started my transition during the mid-nineties, I searched, almost desperately, for a story that worked for me. For the longest time, I thought I needed a story that secured my claims to womanhood and that illuminated my (often confusing) life experiences. How else to justify my claims? How else to understand my experiences? At the time, unfortu-nately, there were really only two stories available for me to draw on. Alas, there are still only two stories to draw on. In what I call the "wrong-body" model, transsexuality involves a misalignment between gender identity and the sexed body. This idea developed in the context of sexology, medicine, and psychiatry (facilitated by technological developments).' While in the psychological variant of the model, transsexuality is viewed as a problem of the mind (albeit treatable through sex reassignment surgery) by the medical establishment, in the wrong-body model proper, transsexuality is viewed as a problem of the body by transsexuals—”
ALT first bit of the & Change Poetry publishing contract for LOVE THAT FOR US, a new collab chapbook with Sam Herschel Wein
