for madeline
When you hold me there are words for that.
I do not remember the words for that but I remember that there are words.
There are not words for when you do not hold me.
I remember that there are no words in the world so I say them.
Abolishing a line is only one way to mark it.
My throat hurts from saying so much nothing.
When I say I love you what I really mean to ask is, will I change?
About Me
- TC
- gender-queer feminist, photographer, thinker, and poet. anti-racist, anti-oppression, pink lovin' queer. in 2004, my sonnet crown, “Beg Approval,” was chosen by Matthea Harvey for the University of Arizona /Academy of American Poets Award. In 2006, selections from Reconstruction of a Bird were chosen as the runner up in the Arizona Statewide Poetry Competition by Olga Broumas. In 2009 and 2010, my manuscript, Gephyromania, was a finalist for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press. in 2010, my work won the Arizona State Poetry competition chosen by Linda Russo. my poems can be found, or are forthcoming, in The Drunken Boat, The Pinch, Shampoo, Volt, A Trunk of Delirium, and jubilat.
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