When she smiles
\nI try to catch
\nher teeth
\nwith my eyes
\nclosed.<\/p>\n
What animates
\nmy skin
\nso flushed?<\/p>\n
What crumbles
\nmy bones
\ninto weakness?<\/p>\n
Where does desire
\nfind home if
\nthat same desire
\nis a run away?<\/p>\n
There are men
\nlike shadows
\npassing through
\nour chests
\npressing spears
\nagainst our skulls
\ncarving DYKE
\ninto our skins.<\/p>\n
Heather Warren is a poet and musician from Fairbanks, Alaska where she is currently working on her MFA in poetry at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her work can be found in various LGBTQ journals, including “Iris Brown” and “Polari.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When she smiles I try to catch her teeth with my eyes closed. What animates my skin so flushed? What crumbles my bones into weakness? Where does desire find home if that same desire is a run away? There are men like shadows passing through our chests pressing spears against our skulls carving DYKE into [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-photo-by-heather-firth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}