autopsky
someday they’ll cut this body open and discover that my flesh is made of sky: azure, sapphire, cerulean, turquoise, ultramarine indigo violet black cirrus and cumulus clouds stirring behind my eyes cumulonimubus, alight with lightning, crackling through the capillaries of the heart. i am oh so full of rain you could fall through me into forever. please, dear scientist, mortuary explorer, search me thoroughly tenderly catalogue all my wayward parts. find somewhere in me the forgotten moon, the faded stars. re-member, reassemble, this tattered heaven, this shattered celestial thing.
Who?
What?
In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Kai Cheng Thom draws equally from memory and mythology to create new maps of gender, race, sexuality, and violence. In the world of a place called No Homeland, the bodies of the marginalized—queer and transgender communities, survivors of abuse and assault, and children of diaspora—are celebrated, survival songs are sung, and the ancestors offer you forgiveness for not remembering their names.
Descended from the traditions of oral storytelling, spoken word, and queer punk poetry, Kai Cheng Thom’s debut collection is evocative and unforgettable.
When?
Arrives May 2017
Where?
Book Launches: Sounds Like Fire: Femme4Femme, April 25th (Tomorrow!), 8PM, Verses Festival, The Cutch, Vancouver. Get tickets here!
Purchases: From the Arsenal Pulp Press website or at your local bookstore. $14.95.
How?
Creating new maps of gender, race, sexuality, and violence.
The copyrights of all poems included in the series remain with their authors, and are reprinted with the permission of the publishers.
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