xxx

lost track of what i can feel
distorted, desired drunken
lapping at the spit that tiles the bathroom floor

forgot what you said leaving the room
only to hear the echo back days later
not for the answer i’m left needing

only breathing between your legs
iron taste, it’s my only safety
non-existent when separate

handjobs under bus shelters
awaiting the changeover
hoping it never comes

all your friends laugh at us
their noses red from powders
taken like a lesson

daydreaming self-castration
bruising blue in promises
losing you to opulence

all the memories strayed
and then they came back different
distant in cognition

met you years passed in a place familiar
you were there with a different face
asking me why i am still missing?

existence in poetry //

transgender,
hopeless sapphic
gothic romantic //

revelations in love,
despair, hope
failure, beauty
death, personhood
resistance, healing //

non-indigenous woman
dwelling in Naarm
on lands sovereign
to the Wurundjeri people
this always was
always will be
Aboriginal land
paytherent.net.au //