Oct. 8, 2023
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underwater plot to get the raft back
-originally published in Dunes Review.
By Stephanie Heit
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underwater plot to get the raft back
-originally published in Dunes Review.
By Stephanie Heit
underwater plot to get the raft back (displaced muskrat gathers cohorts)
birds in various costumes red shoulder pads black shift –
yellow chest medallion sand siphons into my limbs her breathing
(deepens) dock’s bleached wood we touch & scan our pre-
evolution tails
Stephanie Heit
Stephanie Heit (she/her) is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe land in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, bipolar, a mad activist, a shock/psych system survivor, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her poetry collections are the book of hybrid memoir poems, PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022), and The Color She Gave Gravity (Operating System, 2017). Learn more on her website.
Photo credit: Tamara Wade
Image Description: Headshot of Stephanie Heit, a white queer disabled cis woman smiling, wearing a purple wrap, with brown wavy hair in a bob. She is on (perhaps in, feet dangling) the Huron River with background muted green of tree leaves, and dappled light before dusk.