does nothing, changes everything
introductions are a battle with discourse
not non-binary anti binary
not bi pan
multiplicity simultaneously
kinship is friendship
family is chosen
multicultural is static time space
relational cosmopolitan
queer theory for those who know it
intersectionality for the rest
yet
&
still
categories brimming with suffocation
the everyday
micro fracases
undefinition
previously published in Swim Meet Lit Mag
it’s not where it’s how
i would hastily put some of it anywhere somewhere
walk away abandoning      to
commemorate the nimbleness
is such scooping of bits possible or without consequence
even metaphorically
description of process does not equate to a knowing
maybe i’m getting it wrong
what if Anne Carson is referring to a shift in weight
a break from the rewind
a temporary footfall to put the bags on to get the feeling back in your arms
a deep lungful and pick up       again
perhaps it’s where after all
dropping on arrival
parasitic travellers awaiting their destination
are they there yet
