[Image: Multiple hands form together with a large red heart painted across.]
Sarah Denise Johnson’s poem is a defiant reclamation of the plural pronoun and celebration of the spectrum of genders that have always been part of humanity.
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Name for a woman or a man
Gender neutral pronouns, please
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“Being rational, but discrete, he divided me. Advanced curriculum, my bell curves skewed, and he transformed the mean. No longer prime, I wished him imaginary.”
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Let Zoë Bracken’s quiet lyricism draw you into an intimate world of longing and revel in the natural images she paints with words.
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Then they spider out, skitter and
caress, fingers relaxing,
cupping the cheek like an explosion holds the ground,
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Spilled words from her lips/ like red wine on white carpets. / She left many stains.
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red mud bundle where peaceable people retire
and kids end up, end up again
Bonheur sounds like a kiss in any language,
and I’ve been saying tristesse over and over
for a year to get it right. Sadness.
I want to get comfortable,
so I unclasp the hinge
at the back of my head
in the softness where my brain meets my spine,
and pull off my skin.