XV.
wen ambeyance / accidentlie
presense as a grl / sweting
at mye teat / i wonted 2
lov her accidentes / 2 powre
lines cut verticle inn the grasse / mye
lyrick untide inn her hande / clynical lik
spryng / is ther anye thynge u lov / cis / mor
than an anteseedynt / it is pleesing
2 understande laybor as a feeld / a felt
past thru / i wuld see
u / grene inn that lande
XVI.
gendre is not the tran organe / gendre is yes a
hemorage / the nayme scrypt & the stayte scrypt
preseed laping the milke in mye sacks / gendre lik all
sirfase is a feemale depositrie room / in that clowde
moses wept & wee exspeckte a lawe /
his fase lik lite &
r bodies goldenne in vagynoplastycitie / if u evre get
downe mye mountain / he sade pirge me with hysop /
offer mye bulock on the alter / a tran is noting but the
scens off sum burning / i a lone hav scaped 2 tell u this
Jos Charles
Jos Charles is a trans poet, editor, and author of feeld, a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series,and a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, PEN, Washington Square Review, Denver Quarterly, GLAAD, Action Yes, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and the 2015 Monique Wittig Writer's Scholarship. She has an MFA from the University of Arizona and lives in Long Beach, California.
