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Algae


I believe in bodies
& their
                            algae;
 
green stoplight ice skaters.
 
                            Fish tank father
scoop me from the bottom.
 
We clean                      the fish tank,
 
              but the algae grows back stronger,
 
eats away our fingernails &
                                          clogs the filter.
 
I writhe: neon tetra
                                          or candle.
 
Our mouths opening to let free bubbles
              as balloons
 
all caught in the ceiling fan,
un-bursting.
 
It’s always our birthday
& we’re eating                  pink frosting
 
off faces
              a sheet cake growing moss.
 
Sugar eyebrow eater
                     you call me.
 
You tell me that you feel
the woolly-bears always walking
                                   up your arm
 
they believe in heaven more than us
 
their prayers are       a motion
 
they will their own arrivals to
              the final microscope lens.
 
An undulating body
 
                     next to me.
 
The scope pushes into my chest,
You look deeper.
                        Shatter.
I ask you

​              What is hair?
​

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Robin Gow's poetry has recently been published in POETRY, Furrow, carte blanche, FIVE:2:ONE, and Corbel Stone Press. He is a graduate student at Adelphi University pursing an MFA in Creative Writing. He runs two poetry blogs and interns for Porkbelly Press. He is an out and proud bisexual transgender man passionate about LGBT issues. He loves poetry that lilts in and out of reality, and his queerness is also the central axis of his work. He's inspired by trans and gender non-conforming poets like Eileen Myles and Alok Vaid-Menon.
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