After Ursula K. LeGuin
all the rough-hewn sores,
wild seas, regions
of dull, old wounds.
But first
when she touches me
there
there
there
into the deep liquid
that is me between me,
I know
marrow-well,
each pain
she palms
then licks
then causes
to namelessly
erupt.
A.M. Wild (she/they) is a queer, nonbinary writer who lives and works in New York City. Their creative work, which has appeared in The Dead Mule Society of Southern Literature, Sinister Wisdom, and Polari Journal explores queerness and what it means to exist within a traumatized body. Their first book for children featuring a nonbinary main character is forthcoming from Holt/Macmillan and they are the co-founder of Post- a digital arts journal by and for the queer community.