xi

in pursuit of sunlight fragmented
a shattering bloom across your bones
inhabiting dusk, embodying us
sometimes we are here, sometimes we disappear
like ghosts returning to the only truth they know

alexithymia avoidance euphoria
the trembling pull, a fading dream
of faint outlines dancing against eyelids flickering
mistaking relapse for affinity
laced lithium enraptured fantasy

castration coven //

transgender,
hopeless sapphic
gothic romantic //

reflections in love,
despair, hope
failure, beauty
horror, personhood
resistance, healing //

non-indigenous woman
dwelling in Naarm
on lands sovereign
to the Wurundjeri people
this always was
always will be
Aboriginal land //