Woman-Adjacent
My poem Woman-Adjacent was published earlier this year by Arlen House in their Washing Windows III anthology.
If the title wasn’t a give away enough, the poem focuses on my feelings of being non-binary. It’s was the first poem I wrote on this topic, and writing it sparked a few more. Happily, it was the first one from my recent work gender to be published.
Woman-Adjacent
Woman-adjacent.
That makes sense, doesn’t
it? A not quite that
shape. If I try her
on she fits me for
a day, then slithers
off like a weary
skin. But not a him,
either. Adjacent,
not perpendicular.
Everything between
one shape. Another
shouting heartache when
someone else is placed
over me, when an
imposter breaks bones
to tell me who I
am.
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