T.R. San

T.R. San (they/them) is a queer poet based in Yangon who writes horror without meaning to. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Corporeal Magazine, INKSOUNDS, and others.

The Pronoun Poem They Teach at Transsexual High

Herring myself into the ocean-

poem I root girlness out of, Leviathans

 

seek in me a heartbattle with lipstick

heartbutter; who/what am I

 

to win? Her like hurl like har har

like harbor and a sprinkle of herr. Say no

 

more, my herring bones on pinkglitter

herringbone floors, flowering my hims an altar

 

to lavenders, Dorothies, friends to sing of.

Hymning the poet out of the hue-man

 

or mighthaps the human out

of the hue-man, I am never sure

 

which— the thing is that I am he-

re, buddying and butting and budding

 

in singulars and plurals, and that’s what

I means, here, the theys, the third persons

 

and their thirty self-thirding theatrics, collectives

of bouquet or branch or vase, rendering blooms

 

uncountable.