xlii

count the sum of inadmissible parts
between you and i, the envious tension
something shared but unknowable
a hallucination of a memory

when we fuck i try to imagine how it feels for you
to overflow without a sense of drowning
a closed loop of completions
a purpose echoing back in reason

how can i undo myself like you?
silence sublime, an indica trance
i would give anything to live it
belonging where you begun

i watch you cum in repetition
you taste sweeter than i do
yet we remain indistinguishable
imagined as figments tracing heat with the room

i lose all consciousness when you let go
feel the dreams fade through my fingertips
always living in between liminal spaces
waiting for the moment it finally feels like home

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 //