ALT The Hungering Years by Summer Farah, a postcard of the cover, and a purple pencil that says I TELL ETEL ADNAN. Sitting on a pink blanket

ALT The cover of the Winter 2025 Anthology from Querencia Press. Edited by Emily Perkovich. The cover is a bunch of blackberries, very dark with little contrasts of red.

ALT One of my poems taken at an angle so you can't really read anything except for my name at the end

ALT A photo of my poem in the Winter 2025 Anthology from Querencia Press GENDER IS A GALAXY i wanna be a soft gay boy i am a soft gay boy but also not a soft gay boy i am air i am nothing i am warm i am a star but a bendable star a five-pointed thing that stretches out and out and curls around itself and is soft and furred like a kitten a rabbit my small paws tap planets across the galaxy like marbles across a linoleum floor i shine and i caress and i purr and it is music to many ears i am A Boy but not quite a boy, not always a boy i am nothing and i am everywhere you can see and touch and love me, but not all the time sometimes i am just the wind, just empty space, the bare-boned death rattle hiss of leaf-shucked wintry trees as they are harassed by snowstorm breaths and bonfire smoke and grabby mitten hands. I am the snow. I am the sun. I am. - BLUE JAMES (they/them)