Robin Gow (fae/ it/ he) is a trans witch and poet from rural Pennsylvania. Fae is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks as well as an essay collection and Young Adult and Middle Grade novels in verse, including A Million Quiet Revolutions and Dear Mothman. It works at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center as the Director of the Education Institute.
INVASIVE
When I opened my cyclops, I remembered the sun.
Another mouth forms the phrase “wrong body”
and I correct them and say you mean “wrong context.”
I am thankful to not be male. Instead, I am a blade of butter.
A shoe’s worth of land. They measure their worth
in acres. Invent tools to peer out at the hills
and break them into parcels. As a game, I decide
to travel as far as I can in this life. Could I arrive
where I’m told I belong? Would I even want to.
Something I love about my exile is the color of stoplights.
How their red challenges mine like a game.
When it returns like a gifted and un-gifted ring.
I too am like that pattern. Unwanted and admittedly
beautiful. Moths tattoos themselves on the street lamps.
A remnant is towed away. This is my blue September city.
Open Mic to follow the poetry reading.
