DANI YOURUKOVA

 

Gender of the Day

 

a shoebill, or

a piece of string,

those thumbnail frogs,

meandering,

a warehouse full of long-tailed bats,

the twitter feeds of technocrats,

the sound of rain on a bike,

unopened message from my psych,

a sky, a screech, a

pig on the beach,

debt forgiveness

out of reach,

an orange peel,

an earnest callout

Danielle Steele’s ermine ball gown

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dani Yourukova is a Wellington poet. Their MA project is a loose poetic adaptation of Plato’s Symposium, featuring queer longing, a choose-your-own-adventure apocalypse, Les Miserables slash fiction, and love poetry about ancient philosophers. You could find their work in various literary journals if you wanted to.

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