BESTIA
Every cell (outside the norm)
every unplucked eyebrow ~ ~
any toenail too-sharp—
or shape beyond hourglass ><
betrays our animal bodies.
60% water 40% new moon
What has ugly got to do with life anyways?
When you can be clever + kind
or thoroughly creative*
I see my mother unshaved in the mirror!
I see my own legs numb under me ‖
I tire of stooping and scraping the hair away ///
I grow my leg-hair long;
hair bristles every time the wind shifts ‴‟
news from the four directions #
faint notions etching & senses twinge
Is she wildwoman?
The children want to know:
is she beast?
Is she=they
or just outside definition…
like a word lost -------------------
The displaced words } {
guessed at [ ]
A UC Santa Cruz alum (go banana slugs!) Kelsey Bryan-Zwick (she/they) is a queer, bilingual, disables, Los Angeles based poet. Surviving with debilitating scoliosis they have become an expert cat-napper and daydreamer. Their debut collection, Here Go the Knives, is sure to gut you, get it now from Moon Tide Press.
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a moon of one's own 