Aurora Comes Online
“In their wonderfully experimental debut, Haley Bossé reveals the very thin line between our physical and virtual lives," -Rosebud Ben-Oni
Aurora Comes Online: Gamified Poem
An interactive version of the title poem from my upcoming chapbook!
Confessions of a Beam of Light/Boy/ Broken Wind-Up Doll
I confess / I only wanted to be a girl / when Hayley Kiyoko sang / ––girls like girls like––
Depressed
This piece was created by square-punching anatomical, botanical, and marine science images and then overlaying them on a scan of a depressed human brain...
witnessing // the passing // of a whale
We watched it as it dripped away: / the whale. We watched / from the lip / of the precipice as it flowed
Portrait of Me as a Tradwife
wrist deep in hot wet dough / just waiting to be floured
A ( )en Body Comes to Shore
Because the shore is an alarm set just loud enough to break my fugue, I silence it but don’t go back to sleep.
In Which Water Becomes Audible
Nominated for the Rhysling Award!
Written in response to the history of Fly Ranch Geyser, a settler-made geyser system created by geothermal drilling on the ancestral lands of the Cui ui Ticutta, Gidutikad, Aga’ipañinadökadö, and Ta’boosi Tuka’du bands of the Northern Paiute people.
Written in response to the history of Fly Ranch Geyser, a settler-made geyser system created by geothermal drilling on the ancestral lands of the Cui ui Ticutta, Gidutikad, Aga’ipañinadökadö, and Ta’boosi Tuka’du bands of the Northern Paiute people.
Ember Mouths and Th nb rg 2
Everything broken in you / Calls for hammer and nail.
What Was Asked of Me, On girlHood, and From Paper, Flight
There are many kinds of bodies, but my work has been with the most familiar ones, better known as girls.
Cover Art
"The Feminist Spaces Editorial Team is proud to announce our eleventh issue: “The Censorship Issue." The pieces we’ve brought together work as a refusal to bow to the forces that aim to sanitize, simplify, or silence our realities."
Transcrypsis
In the era of rain, our only color was graphite
Aurora Autofills
Imagine me / Plumish / Practiced / Pixie Cut / Pompadour
In Defense of Autototomy (Reprint)
Content Warning: Religious trauma, surgery
so one day I learned to sew one day / cut stitches out the next
so one day I learned to sew one day / cut stitches out the next
Wane And Wax
When she was eight, Alice Henderson briefly held the world record for filling her mouth with marbles. When she was nine, she bit the moon.
The Eco-Audiologist, After Hearing
Content warning: Post-apocalyptic
The Silent Morning came. It wasn’t great so much as crystalline...
The Silent Morning came. It wasn’t great so much as crystalline...
In Defense of Autotomy (Reprint)
Content Warning: Church trauma, surgery
this body / never belonged / to me anyway.
this body / never belonged / to me anyway.
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
Content warning: Body horror, vomit
Then =redundant
Then =redundant
Toxic Algae Blooms in the Willamette River
Nominated for Best of the Net!
Content Warning: Climate Change
Bloom is the blandest
sound for something
proliferating out of control
Content Warning: Climate Change
Bloom is the blandest
sound for something
proliferating out of control
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
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize & Genrepunk's Haunting Award!
Content Warning: Death
The news finds greater months / of no connection between women
Content Warning: Death
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...
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