my god(s)(?)

"You met God in a gay club on Tuesday. They were wearing a black cardigan, holding back their heavy braids with a red fabric headband; they had on bracelets saying daddy and dom. (Your Father.) You flirted. God thumbed the collar around your neck and called you cute; you said, That’s gay. They smirked[...] You danced with God for hours, had God’s sweat on your palms making blood oaths with your own. Your back against their binder-clad chest, you touched your fingers to their beard (produced by injections). They nodded."

Originally printed and sold as a zine in 2018, this chapbook is a 24-year-old's revision of a 21-year-old's meditation on queerness (asexuality; aromanticism; transness), religion (Lutheran Christianity; Hellenic polytheism), and a few favorite dead authors (Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Elliot Smith; Edna St. Vincent Millay).