Eye to the Telescope: (Non)Binaries
With this call, I asked for the generosity of the SFF community. I asked us all to imagine, to sit with, to envelop ourselves in everything (non)binary.
King Tide
Content Warning: Loss, death
Each year, a memory / Of tourists makes their way / Below the thermocline.
Each year, a memory / Of tourists makes their way / Below the thermocline.
If =then and M al wh er e
Then =redundant
Toxic Algae Blooms in the Willamette River
Bloom is the blandest
sound for something
proliferating out of control
sound for something
proliferating out of control
Dreaming in Scales +2
Content Warning: Body horror
Milk in a tub
To charm a snake,
Snake in a body
To fill a hole
Milk in a tub
To charm a snake,
Snake in a body
To fill a hole
not yet smoke season, we
light a fire / in our basement
In a World that Cares / for the Unidentified Woman / Found by My Childhood Home
The news finds greater months / of no connection between women
Origins of an Exile
Content Warning: Engagement with transphobic things people have said to me
You never know what a thing
In a skirt will turn out to be...
You never know what a thing
In a skirt will turn out to be...
Interview w/the Recomposition Technician
You’d be surprised \’!.<’:\.,\’!.<’:\.\-’!’;|:.,\’!-.’:.,\!.<’,\’!.<-*/. how ’:.,\/”=.!.’!.< wires meet .|’:\/”= their ends *-’!.<’.|’:\/”= coiling in your hand -’:.,\’!.<’:\.\-’:./.\ =like intestines.
What we do after Nex
Content Warning: The death of Nex Benedict
The Computer Imagines Me a Boy
The coded boy reaches / Through swells of matter / And computes the distance between us / As easy as...
Issue 4: Heart of Thine Cards – Vocivia Magazine
and then we’ll be rotting
and then we’ll be rotten
and then we’ll be animals
climbing in the canopy
and then we’ll be rotten
and then we’ll be animals
climbing in the canopy
it was a child's war--
shadow hands hoisting shadowed puppets high...
Finalist for the 2023 PhotoFinish Contest
Finalist for the 2023 PhotoFinish Contest
I confess, I only wanted to be a girl
Content Warning: Suicidal Ideation
I confess / I only wanted to be a girl / when Hayley Kiyoko sang / -girls like girls like-
I confess / I only wanted to be a girl / when Hayley Kiyoko sang / -girls like girls like-
Your roommate moves out and it turns out the infestation was coming from his room.
He says, it’s all ready for you now...
Ripples in the Mirror
Every morning asks me
Whether or not to kill the ant
Climbing up my bathroom wall.
Whether or not to kill the ant
Climbing up my bathroom wall.
When the Time Comes to Split the Gym
Here, I’m not the only insect breathing in bacteria / and breathing out whole communities.
In Defense of Autotomy
Content Warning: Church trauma, surgery
this body / never belonged / to me anyway...
this body / never belonged / to me anyway...
not yet smoke season, we
light a fire
in our basement,
in our basement,
Fatigue With No Rain
You know / I’ve tried to love this body / to hold it loosely / as it molts and ebbs.
Consecration
Lick me in the alley where the tourists take their pictures
Fecundity
Unravel your tongue, weary traveler,
dip your body in my well.
dip your body in my well.
Worshiping the Dirt
Everything beyond the first knuckle of each finger is pink and puckers in the air as it tastes the breath of morning.
Second Place in the A Walk Through the Woods Contest.
Second Place in the A Walk Through the Woods Contest.
When We Didn't Get to Choose Our Bodies
I’d never kissed a / girl before I met / Anne,
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