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The Stork Will Make Two Stops

A reflective and emotionally grounded narrative that explores queer family building through reciprocal IVF, centering choice, partnership, and the meaning of being wanted.

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First: The Belt

A thoughtful poem about trans becoming, where Orion serves as both symbol and shorthand for masculinity, recognition, and self-authorship.

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How One Woman Unmade My Architecture

A reflective narrative that traces the five stages of grief through an unexpected connection, exploring how one woman’s steadiness dismantled old ideas about love, chaos, and survival.

Missy Matchstick 10/27/25 Missy Matchstick 10/27/25

U-Bahn Femme (Jan. ‘19)

A stark, introspective essay that uses Berlin’s winter landscape and history as a mirror for memory, restraint, and the quiet, necessary work of becoming yourself.

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Glass Closet

Part confession, part self-drag, part queer excavation, this essay traces a late lesbian awakening through memory, shame, humor, and the signs that refused to stay buried.

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A Rosary in the Glovebox

Written in the tradition of George Ella Lyon’s “I Am From,” this poem assembles a self from rosaries, winter, food, nursing, and inheritance, tracing the sacred and bruised geography of a life.

“The Palms STill Stand. Crisp Silhouettes against a Hazy Sky, tall as guilt and just as thin. They line the driveway in symmetrical grief, as if trying to offer shade to something that can’t be cooled. Everything here is sun-bleached and wind-chapped, held together by spider webs and memory. The breeze tastes like eucalyptus and the air smells like dust that used to be skin.”

— Noncompliant: A Sunglassed Elegy From Camarillo