Welcome to Litsy!

the sound I make is a blackbird‘s cry.
here is the wild heart of me,
rush of heat on your fullness,
this is the holy wild she made me.
a woman‘s sex is as sacred as her land,
my ancestors learned from creation,
a woman is as holy wild as
her body‘s made to be.

#LGBTQ #poetry

remember you
are not wrong
neither are your lovers
who love you—
confused and changing
like you love the earth
under the weight of spring
as summer breaks open
as everything is blessed
by its sudden wonder
forgive us our sins
daughter of yourself
as we forgive you
the miracle of your being.

“do not perform your body, / be a holy place only the blessed can enter.” #trans woman Benaway‘s award-winning collection of intimate, autobiographical #poems uses a confessional conversational style to talk about sex & love & violence & transitioning within the larger context of #Canadian (colonial) society. She writes about forgiveness, & also of finding sanctuary & healing in nonhuman entities, like water & forests. 💜#LGBTQ

her name is kiiwe*
[…]

but rivers and trans girls know something
you will never know

how to find our way back
across wastelands

to the lakes we belong to,
kiiwe is a verb but also a promise.

*goes home

#poetry

what sleeps in language is what sleeps in me,
possibilities and consequences
for which the surface has no hope,
an unwritten alphabet of shadows
I learn in secret, undercover from a hormonal moon
in a dark tongue.

#trans #poetry

you are a boy born to conquer every gentle place
in every woman you meet, always bent toward discovery

a brave word your ancestors used

to disguise
conquest

her body is made of moments
where grace found her,
she sleeps in forests
only she can name.

#LGBT #poetry

Breakfast smoothie + poetry. I‘m so glad my library finally bought some of Gwen Benaway‘s work. I discovered her through an anthology and was mighty disappointed I couldn‘t charge right into her bibliography.

This is such a fabulous poetry collection. Gwen Benaway is a talented poet and has a way of drawing you into her experiences as a trans and indigenous woman. Her poetry style is definitely my cup of tea as well. I definitely recommend this.

Also, anyone in need of their poetry collection category for #readharder will find that this one meets those needs!

Gwen Benaway has written another powerful collection of poems reflecting on her life as an Indigenous trans woman. It's raw, it's beautiful, it's raunchy, it's sad. #transbooks #queerbooks #poetry

#transbooks #queerbooks #poetry

💜 #transbooks #queerbooks

Great line!! I love the idea of Ikea selling us a lie about love! 😂 #transbooks #queerbooks #poetry

Next up! #transbooks #queerbooks #poetry