Foxy Digitalis
Archaeologist. Musician. Baker. Thinker.
I didn’t come into the world With a shower of pumice and a head full of hair To sit idly in my tracks waiting for Trains to come through. The crystalline air, choking and grey, said “I’m here, a child of the earth, but not bound to subtlety.” My mission, from the start, has been […]
Danez Smith is a black, male-bodied, male-attracted, non-binary, HIV positive poet and the poems they weave make it clear how each of those seemingly disparate aspects of them are actually a web in which they’re caught and struggle. If all of the words they use were pulled out of their form and organized into which […]
Walk into the fire. Trust the flames not to hurt If they aren’t hot. Seize the moment when your breath Has all gone out, waiting for pain, To be the moment before your breath returns. The beads of sweat Are sweet and full. There are no burns That can take you whole. Birth always hurts […]