On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne
Famed poet and playwright Christopher...
Content warning: Descriptions of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
“Take your clothes off so I can see your muscles.” He says it almost offhandedly, without...
Womb slabs
a surgical tray
and my heart—
a ship
of Thesus
ripples
outside its body.
An odd pulse
strokes
the masslessness
of pain
buys all in
to profit
an exhale.
I sigh
a knife
silver enough
to eclipse
fusion—a line
of salt...