physicists say we change an object simply by turning our attention to it—really I am a grandson only when we are eating at Panera—one of us is lying always about her particular hunger—I love the children outside of me counting to 30 while covering their eyes—whose body will we sacrifice to be in the company of another—each day across my ongoing—I haul the husk of her—fire towers are designed for distance viewing—and I am right here—mothering you into the next life—call me cover when you don’t know who I could be—time’s psychologic and legal assault—no one is listening to ice become water—burying you to keep us alive—
TC TolbertTC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, mover, and poet. And s/he’s a human in love with humans doing human things. S/he is Tucson’s poet laureate and author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014), four chapbooks, and co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013). Melissa was his name before s/he became TC. www.tctolbert.com