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.