"a limbless thing, / a flushed pink tube / that bristles & grows / symmetrical, / that wiggles rings / around your heart / & drums around, / but dim. & in the rain / joy arrives—"
The beautiful outlaw, a lipogram that does not use the letters in the subject’s name (in this case, the name of an endangered species) explores what happens when what is endangered is instead absent—gone.
"too many notifications but waking up to an empty phone is vacuums / sucking butterflies I am the same thread flushed and forgotten by the space / I used to occupy..."
"Let this make us safe / to kiss and wake in the bright light / of science. Let us place too much / stock in our own resilience. / Let us experiment. Let us embrace / and make pets of our differences..."