You will find trunks full of people like me

You will find trunks full of people like me (about QUEER)

The genome is a big place

with many spectrums to roam 

and selves to perform

You won’t find predictions or determinisms 

in the connections between SNPs

(Single nucleotide polymorphisms) 

You can’t make single reductions

Or read its Origin Story

On one, even etymologists can’t settle

Categorical contradictions 

Perhaps it’s not a label to claim

Pellucid in peculiarities

It’s white light refracted

 a reimagining of what could be

Rio de Janeiro, 2015

in my sleep my eyes have leaked

from some dreams that revisit

as they settled in

evidence in the aches

and tears on my breasts

in one my hair was to my shoulders

and i was somewhere i’ve seen before

where i am what i was and all i want to be