I.
the copse in mye guarden /
inspeckting hews / & i am
depositing myeself
lik a fum / am trap
inn ther blak & blu / invagynation meens
everie hole is an extremitie / u
rite long enuff inn 2 its sirface
/ it rites inn 2 u / hah /
thees treees / cannot be insied me /
not with all thees copse arond / pleese /
i am afrayde
i am riting myeself
metonymic off deth / agane
i am so afrayde / off wut is it ur holding
inn ur souwre hande /
this sirface has a colore
II.
sence
the guarden
/ wee became the markett
2 its hart / this is the holde
the commewn held /
its trik off lite / the insieds
off a hulle teemd with bes /
inn wistern treees / mye grls salve /
ther lites / the shayde disclosd /
& it’s a trik /
evrie hart / this wee
the commewn hart /
consumd whos crowes
the copse in mye guarden /
inspeckting hews / & i am
depositing myeself
lik a fum / am trap
inn ther blak & blu / invagynation meens
everie hole is an extremitie / u
rite long enuff inn 2 its sirface
/ it rites inn 2 u / hah /
thees treees / cannot be insied me /
not with all thees copse arond / pleese /
i am afrayde
i am riting myeself
metonymic off deth / agane
i am so afrayde / off wut is it ur holding
inn ur souwre hande /
this sirface has a colore
II.
sence
the guarden
/ wee became the markett
2 its hart / this is the holde
the commewn held /
its trik off lite / the insieds
off a hulle teemd with bes /
inn wistern treees / mye grls salve /
ther lites / the shayde disclosd /
& it’s a trik /
evrie hart / this wee
the commewn hart /
consumd whos crowes
JOS CHARLES is a trans poet and writer. They are author of Safe Space, forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. They are founding-editor of THEM: a trans literary journal. They have writing published (and/or publications forthcoming) with Denver Quarterly, Action Yes, Washington Square Review, Capilano Review, The Feminist Wire, BitchMedia, Entropy, GLAAD, LAMBDA Literary, and elsewhere.