“Masturbation” is the ideal form of sex activity of this trans-gendered subject.” —Slavoj Žižek
Love in this omnivorous air
this weave of straps & copper we must look like
a long woman who can’t stop
touching herself
A tangled braid
of bone A prairie of orchids
speckled in amber in pudendum
in hooks Lean
closer & hear the cries crackling
along my jaw like hooves The spit
circling my throat like a supplicant
Before re-entering the world that makes
a husband of me you clench
the absence of my breasts
At the unclasping our twinned watermark
our afterimage fading
From Hunger Mountain Issue 22: Everyday Chimeras, which you can purchase here.
Art by Maggie Nowinski.
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R. Cassandra Bruner was born and raised in Indiana. Currently, she is an MFA poetry candidate at Eastern Washington University, where she works as the managing editor of Willow Springs Books and the web editor for the literary magazine, Willow Springs. Winner of the 2017 Montana Book Festival Emerging Writers’ Contest, her work has previously appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Pleiades and Vinyl.
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