1 25 59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. I’m a neurodivergent, chronically ill queer person and have lived in Bellingham, WA since 1996, when I was 18 years old. My great overarching special interest is food, and I cook and bake all manner of seasonal vegetarian food. I am also an avid motorcyclist, especially motocamping, and am working on becoming a published motorcycle travelogue author. In my spare time, I read a lot of nonfiction science and anthropology, as well as science fiction, classic literature, short stories, and poetry, including Spanish language poetry. When I was a child, on long car trips, I used to think the moon followed me home. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/749">love poem to the moon</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Northwest Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cordelia Ridley, xe/xyr or they/them Author Tag: activist Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: parent Author Tag: queer https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/9cd639b6a476865b005e5c0548f0fe82.m4a?Expires=1782345600&Signature=VRlwKhgjjscuEEatbZKGE3mSGgUwBS0%7EvpvLt39JBYgv%7EuhDfIKCu1i0cF0WGDN8Z6j1JpFAJDEF2m5pHAYtzQB52dFecS-ilq4ihHbryewFX8NS78QgxavJpwi204Dun0dGCuuP-Uc5LXyrC6GbYZh1BGHSvoLIPfWI218Qs-eoxW9yXqdFZjnpfUrt6Doqhm7rgqsE-RrmiZDVTCavgb8ABY5bKXqS1wUU7uyDIwfFQHeaN%7EgQDYS7Bx3AqDMoxex9brOC8efrWS6%7EAxcNM2mKI6GJ8jjt-UNGbQcih0XvGdYG8Uu78S7cspRnqWLXNcdePCVMvrqCnvLFNWAFSw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8540c011efd6b93bdfe5cc276043f02b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I have been as full as your beauty since I met you. Now this glowing with your rays is all to me. Let me be your moon. Let me circle around your beauty in awe of the honor of spinning. Let me taste you like cream from the top of sunlight's milk. Let me feel your pull change the rhythms of my inner tides. Pull me in towards your deep, dry ocean of dreams. Let me come to you behind midnight clouds. Let me see you in secrecy. Do you sleep beneath those charcoal veils or when you hide from prying eyes, full in your newness? Let me slip into that dark with you, and sit by your side and strain to feel the moonbeams of your dreams. Let me sing you to sleep, for you have taught me to sing, singing softly in those silent moments alone with you, moon. Let me come to you nightly, like a lover. Let me read to you the poems you have written on my heart. Let me touch you, moon, that I might know you are true. Let your light stain my fingers and remain in my blood. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/750">Cordelia Ridley, xe/xyr or they/them</a> Note: you can listen to this poem read by the author, accessible via the Files. 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Title A name given to the resource love poem to the moon Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cordelia Ridley, xe/xyr or they/them Author Tag: activist Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: parent Author Tag: queer Content Notice: sensuality https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/136a44a90b517a25d90c5653ec75faf3.jpg?Expires=1782345600&Signature=LVc%7Em23A4LDqPrHaf9wKHi0k02eXRP0OeZOUBAp3qCRGi2Q9JjVtB2bzcrmHoEgBlpFiQoteQCBQMmXLUbjS1%7EidyzHjlY0MNXUDUAve6HLz96l62N2Fgv8ClrTKMTA3sxvl67rTYk1VrRLlJ%7ESu55MlopaPOHGnC87jL5xKyvqNJ1Ma%7EfjFWew9DIbceEFmYh6ACBIiiYo65EhGEQIXEIv76tg0dW-fmt6JiJWculGQ6cKdYIeaUYHJCgMluqTGlZuOOKA25tjReK9g54orAWSaeFVHfy4zKWU39vR06pvbVHfrG60x3XLLFmfCJZJYuTJ8%7EBwQ-LGVqpQKFdazGw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 0911e8491c8b65af6d880b02ac0f390b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/375">Poppy Yozh (they/them)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Root Bound Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Poppy Yozh (they/them) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: gay Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: Polysexual Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. 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Text Any textual data included in the document God’s blessing***whispers from activists past***forget-me-not Memories gift***a white man shoves someone like me in the street***a treasure The flower of my lover's birth land***waiting to be stomped out***blood and ink stain my skin Fondly known as scorpion grassess***the royal blue of a man fucking another man***thriving in the bitterest of colds Trivial little thing clinging to friends on the vine***the neon lights of every club shot up***a petal for each stage of grief “Remember” you are not alone***I stand upon the blood and bone of those before me***I have your back An herb disguised as a flower***I do not wish to be Adam and Eve***an apology from god. The brilliant gold of youth***the man in my bed is not your concern***masked under a blue so deep I swam in it A kiss upon the lips of legacy***of course I went to church on Sunday-ten years ago***grown in the tracks of American history Eternal love***bullshit***remind me of my place —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/427" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SJ Larsen (they/them)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. erotic (explicit) violent imagery violence lack of acceptance grief swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ode to the Forget-Me-Not Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource SJ Larsen (they/them) Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: nonbinary Author Tag: white Content Notice: erotic (explicit) Content Notice: grief Content Notice: lack of acceptance Content Notice: swearing Content Notice: violence Content Notice: violent imagery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Emily Dickinson goes to her first slam at 14. She brings a journal full of feathers and bees. She wears a cardigan over a printed button up her father said was too loud, which she leaves on a chair almost immediately. It will be there when she comes back. She reads a piece about grass. It’s actually about longing. It’s actually about a girl. She doesn’t know how to use the microphone. The judges award her an average of 4.8 points, but everyone encourages her to come back. Which she will never do. She goes home alone. Emily Dickinson goes to her first slam at 19. She crushes the 1-minute rounds, each sundrenched word magnified to scorching. A boy offers to buy her a drink. A girl offers to buy her a drink. But her eyes are already swirling, soul expanding beyond her fitted pants and high-necked starch. Already absorbing the ether of applause. She runs outside. Stands in the chill autumn with the smokers, gasping against an empty night begging to be filled with anything. Emily Dickinson goes to her first slam at 24. She does not read from a notebook, does not hide her slender fingers in a deep pocket. She recites a piece about spring that’s actually about a girl, actually about being a girl, it’s funny, and she knows it, and the audience steeps in her sonics like sweet tea. She goes up again with a piece about pain. Two men leave in a huff. No one misses them. She tries a stunt towards the end, pulls flower petals from her sleeves, but they spill out too early and everyone sees her wince, tells her to go in, and she snaps out an ending dark and crisp as winter dawns. A boy offers her a drink. A girl offers her a drink. Later she will write a poem about following the girl down concrete steps to taste her kiss. She will use plums for central imagery. The poem will be a lie or a wish or NSP entry. She goes home alone. Emily Dickinson goes to her first slam at 35. She wears the white dress, but only to be ironic. She doesn’t bring a notebook. In the first round, Emily stares out into a crowd that has already cast her in a play she’s no interest in starring in, there are so many better stars to hold her gaze, her gay lives in sundrenched fields, she would much rather welcome them to count her feathers, feel the seasons murmur their own secret longings with her breath across their necks. But not tonight. She steps up to the mic and with the calm fury of a spring-thaw stream invites Billy Collins to fuck right off into the sun. She gets all 10s and goes home alone. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/680" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R. Thursday</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. alcohol swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emily Dickinson goes to her first slam Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource R. Thursday Author Tag: activist Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: Asian or Asian American Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Christian Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Rural community member Author Tag: transmasc Author Tag: white Content Notice: alcohol Content Notice: swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document In 1891, Hans Christian Anderson was informed the man he was in love with was getting married…the next day. The groom was worried Hans would make a scene but luckily, he only absolutely justified that by reciting extended passionate poems about the man in front of God and everyone. The bride didn't even have the decency to be anything but lovely, so gentle, he couldn't even hate her for being with someone Hans claimed he loved as a woman, his longing forced to be secret, that is silent. In 1989, I see my first movie in theatres: The Little Mermaid. Picture me holding a Minnie Mouse doll, my legs lost in sequined fin, my 2 year old frame obscured beneath pink nylon with shiny purple shells, a smile so broad from a mouth so big it is the widest gate to barrel an army of insults through, the softest target. My first conviction, condemned to be labeled repeat offender. “You talk too much.” You know the story, right? She doesn't listen. She wants a body she wasn't born with. Sacrifices speech to be seen without drowning. It's obvious, when you think about it. I have written so many poems apologizing for their own noise and others where I pretend to be proud of the volume. When I cried, my voice splintered exactly like my mother's, exactly how she earned the nickname Squeaker, a not-gentle-enough judgment, which never stopped her from calling me big mouth. We have always loved like oceans. Which is to say, crushingly. Hans sent the man a handwritten original draft. The soft femme. The separated lover. The silencing. In the first version, there is no redemption, just the fall into the sea, just the foam and oblivion, too bleak to publish so after, the added promise of heaven, the potential for a more real self the next go around. I don't have long straight hair or need to cover my chest with any shell but what armor I choose, but when my mother asks if “losing my beautiful voice” is a trans thing, I am on the ocean floor, barely tethered. I am afraid if I open my mouth, the tidal forces of decades being mocked, dismissed, indicted for the squared volume of my words will rip all the forced silences from my secret grottos and spill them across her floor. I want her to stop apologizing for all the witches who have shown me magic. But the question is a conch shell curling infinitely with generational history and it has stolen my voice. In the story, every step on tender new legs is agony, but the mermaid dances for the Prince anyway. We are never allowed to complain about the wreckage of getting what we asked for, no matter who leaves us, no matter who lets the silences swallow us in the surf. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/680" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R. Thursday</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. family trauma or domestic violence mental health lack of acceptance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poor Unfortunate Souls Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource R. Thursday Author Tag: activist Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: Asian or Asian American Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Christian Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Rural community member Author Tag: transmasc Author Tag: white Content Notice: family trauma or domestic violence Content Notice: lack of acceptance Content Notice: mental health Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I keep reminding my students: it’s not lead, it’s graphite - bears more composite connection to diamonds, to them - not lead, different stone – pulled from different earth - soil soul, soiled by gunpowder. Lead leads to links of homo phones, graphs, nyms; leads to lessons on meta phor: foreign fatalities, familiar frictions. No, friends, your writing can’t poison you, not like that anyway. Yes, there was lead once, in the paint, the yellow shot through, as they say, pumped full of lead. I wish I could promise the world was softer now. Graphite is the gentle carbon dreams of. Wish I could tell you we replaced all the lead in the water, the air, the bodies, returned to the soil, teleported out as easily as paint - I wish the only thing that could harm you were words easily erased, replaced, taken back, trans/muted to something more like gentle. Pens may brag of strength, hold their own in battle, held the way we love anything that takes the world down with us, links through destruction, wounds wound tight together, but this smudge is so much more promise, potential, not like lead, “the opposite of a gun is whatever it's pointed at.” Remember, diamonds are forever, and isn’t that a kind of air, I mean oxy/moron, whatever you choose not to undo is what will last, isn’t that better than just what knows only how to end? —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/680" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R. Thursday</a> Note: “the opposite of a gun...” is from Brendon Constantine’s ‘The Opposites Game.’ Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. violent imagery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Putting the Meta in Metonym Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource R. Thursday Author Tag: activist Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: Asian or Asian American Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Christian Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Rural community member Author Tag: transmasc Author Tag: white Content Notice: violent imagery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. R. Thursday (they/them) is an educator, historian, writer, and all-around nerd. When not subverting middle school Social Studies curricula, they can be found reading, playing video games, or writing about vampires, comic books, space, monsters, queerness, and on very good days, all of the above. They live in South King County, Washington, with the world's most copacetic cat. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/681">Putting the Meta in Metonym</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/682">Poor Unfortunate Soul</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/683">Emily Dickinson Goes to her First Slam</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource R. Thursday Author Tag: activist Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: Asian or Asian American Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Christian Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Rural community member Author Tag: transmasc Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Strangers in one world, Friends in the next One turn, One step, Our paths unchecked For a brief moment We share time, A bit of your soul Now attached to mine, And vice versa, But forces act Friends in one world, Strangers, next. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/594" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Quinn Dumont (she/her)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Planetary Collision Theory Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Quinn Dumont Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Quinn is a creative at heart who has always found joy in writing poetry in her free time. Her life at Reed College is filled with music, books, and nature walks that serve as the inspiration for her writing. Her poems are an attempt to communicate the many nuances of human experience. Aside from handmade picture books passed out to neighbors when she was 5, this is her first public work, and she is so excited to share it with the world. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/595" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Planetary Collision Theory</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Quinn Dumont (she/her) Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document From the album “Reflexión” For Savahn What held once breathless, eases with settling endurance, once chaotic, now moves with grace At times overwhelmingly disbelief, and doubt, that a miracle could be. An immaculate blessing sustaining, a reverent boundary The wonder of our incarnation, born of single flame, with unique direction. Burns, lightens without effort, these creations of love. A storybook love, a timeless walk, wondering and wandering, magical, wondrous, a miracle. True Love announces itself by its mere presence with benevolence. Love left unexamined is left to languish, longing to be again. Love visits on its own terms, hold open the door to your tender heart. Do you see the stars young one? Because I see galaxies within your eyes. Do you see the stars young one? —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/590" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Debra Grace Peri</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Change (Cambios) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Debra Grace Peri Author Tag: activist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Debra Grace Peri is a dynamic and multifaceted artist whose work spans the realms of music, poetry, and education. A graduate of The Evergreen State College, she embodies the college's ethos of interdisciplinary learning and intellectual exploration. As a musician, poet, and teacher, Debra channels her deep passion for creative expression into every endeavor, blending artistry with a profound commitment to personal growth and community. A lifelong student and seeker, she approaches both life and art as continuous journeys of discovery, ever curious, ever evolving. Through her work, Debra invites others to explore the transformative power of creativity, critical thought, and mindful living. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/591" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Change</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Debra Grace Peri Author Tag: activist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Comfort com·fort /ˈkəmfərt/ noun Synonyms: clean sheets, familiarity, bonfire smoke 1. Evenings in late spring or early summer spent in the grass, with or without a drink, but must include you and me. Temperature mild - preferably with a breeze. The sky is clear cerulean - save for two fluffy white clouds. May also include 4-5 other friends, hummus and crackers, a portable speaker, a deck of playing cards, and uproarious laughter. "I can’t wait for the comfort of July." 2. A giant pot of food on the stove to feed a whole crowd, though the crowd may be as small as three, in which case leftover containers will be filled and sent home with the guests. Carbs will be involved in one way or another. You will eat until you are content, or perhaps a little past the point of, and slip into a short nap on my couch. “Your comfort brings me such joy.” verb Synonyms: air conditioning, a kiss on my eyelid, fingers brushing cheeks 1. When you slip your fingers in between mine as we walk down the street – our magnetism materialized in the palms of our hands. "Care for some comfort?" —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/524" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jazper D'mura</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Comfort Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jazper D'mura Author Tag: activist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Sapphic Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I can recognize why the isolation, brought on by outside forces, or from the depths of my own abdomen, cuts to the quick like it does. But my spirit feels like it needs it sometimes. To stow away from connectivity. To be still enough to let lichen collect in the crevices. To not engage with the artifact of the mirror but sense reflection all the same. Yet, I ache all the while. My heart, dipped in wax, brittle to the touch, and malleable, malleable, malleable to the heat. Distance measured in physical and spiritual connection, connection, connection of the self is not enough. After a while it morphs into static and the transmission sputters. I've been jostled from the hook and now I dangle precariously, singing dial tone symphony. Someone pick me up - I'm expecting a call. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/524" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jazper D'mura</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. cigarettes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cigarette Kitchen Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jazper D'mura Author Tag: activist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Sapphic Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Content Notice: cigarettes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Jazper D'mura [they/it] is a queer creative and library professional. Its work contends deeply with themes of grief, longing, change (hopeful or otherwise), and how these aspects interact with being queer. Their main project since November 2023 has been singing, writing, and visual design for their band - Hurry Up, Snufkin. Aside from some work shared on their Instagram (@jazperusal) and micro produced zines, Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology will contain their first published poetry. It has always resided in Washington state, and likely always will. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/525" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cigarette Kitchen</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/526" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Comfort</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jazper D'mura Author Tag: activist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Sapphic Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document you open the front door invite us in under the presumption we'll feed & pet the kitties, take care of the place. a boyish girl and a girly boy you presume, nobody leaves the keys to the mansion, the rolls royce, the wine cellar to a couple trans folks, after all. as soon as you're out the door we're already jumping on the bed eating your ice cream, sheer shrieking joy. (we leave the bed exactly how we found it). if you find yourself underwater in the pitch black, and out of breath, follow the bubbles from your screams to the surface. of course we feed & pet the cats cuddle them amid piles of champagne glasses dom perignon they see this life for what it is, a shiny cage. if you find yourself underwater in the pitch black calmly make your way to the nearest exit and take a deep breath. orange flecks glimmer crystal chandelier up all night talking about queer utopia listening to the radio in your car/ feet up on the dash the stars aren't brighter here inside this crystal cage, just more fluorescent glow. leave us the keys to the crystal cage & the kitties please leave us one night in the champagne palace please leave us. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/520" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Olivia Violet</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. alcohol Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource house sitting/as date night Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Olivia Violet Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: nonbinary Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transfemme Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Content Notice: alcohol Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Olivia Violet is a poet, community supporter, artist, change maker, and sometimes creative writing teacher. They live in the south puget sound region with their cat Miss Monkey and their rosy boa Mr. Amy Squiggle. They were awarded "Cutest Butt Wiggle" while on the cast of Punk Shrek (Gay) the Play in 2022. They enjoy writing narrative, experimental, and free form poetry, as well as flash fiction. They have a deep passion for authentically representing trans themes in their writing. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/521" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">house sitting/as date night</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Olivia Violet Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: nonbinary Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transfemme Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Being queer saved my life1 It’s not just being queer, but the living queerly I forgot the taste of should And remembered how to breathe To stop asking and asking and asking how and who to be To stop looking for answers And remember how to be happy It was terrifying. To turn off the gravity The guilt and the shame and the need for company The questions I had been asking myself, demanding answers finally But here I am under wide skies and falling stars, giddy, heart twinkling Laughter made from clay and embroidery 1My thanks to Ocean Vuong for the quote that inspired this poem —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/501" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arbor Hoff</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Arbor Hoff Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: gay Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: transmasc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Arbor (they/them) lives in Bellingham and feels inspired to write poetry sometimes. Mostly they can be found crocheting with a cat in their lap while listening to audiobooks, or spending time with their chosen family. Arbor works in public libraries and can spend hours talking about intellectual freedom and the role of public libraries in their communities if you let them. Arbor is also grateful for this opportunity to share queer and trans joy in a time when that is feeling more and more subversive. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/502" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">untitled</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Northwest Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Arbor Hoff Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: gay Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: transmasc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Lines are suggestions my crayons ignore. Down deep, I slap legs on Ariel free of charge. In Wonderland, I slip leather-studded lads around tea party tables. Smooth pressed inks meet my smeared psychedelic wax, and Copyright won’t keep Dick Grayson from tonguing Peter Parker’s ear. Like fanfic, she wrote, Killing the author with her own two pens: Electric pink and bubblegum blue. With #cross-hatched lavender, I draw a world where even goo-tentacled monsters get their ships, And under-the-spotlight enemies become behind-the-curtain lovers, Scribbling speeches they’ll share under showers of roses and rice. I papercraft tsundere space samurai in tutus stitched With secrets to faster-than-light speed and sequins Reflecting worlds richer than this – What’s warped over allegedly Indelible funhouse frameworks Held apart by hard science and harder hearts. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/436" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Em Arata-Berkel (they/them)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coloring Books are Boring Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Em Arata-Berkel Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Content Notice: sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document In June, me and you Snuck out the back door, Stole between buttery street lamps, then Wound down a suburban dead end, Where we put ourselves to bed On a cul-de-sac’s asphalt bulb. Yesterday’s heat rose through Bodies sun-scorched and mosquito-stung. Hands brushed, but Even under midnight’s sheet, It was too hot to do anything other Than burn. Another August, we Pour from a theater lobby, Gush over candied neon streets, Leave glitter like breadcrumbs There to here, a now Spent stargazing on crisp grass – work-sore, sure – But we breathe dew Rejuvenating like watermelon Ice breakers under the tongue. We knot fingers to keep warm, Walk home with arms chain-linked, Cackling without shame. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/436" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Em Arata-Berkel (they/them)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summer Folklore Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Em Arata-Berkel Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Born in Texas, Em Arata-Berkel is an emerging poet who's taken root in the Pacific Northwest. Their poetry can be found in the award-winning anthology I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/437" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Summer Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/438" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Coloring Books are Boring</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Em Arata-Berkel (they/them) Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Laughter and people-pleasing cutthroat trout Smoked wood intervenes my tongue A Hydra of alcoholic fruit punch Carry the illustrious Mendenhall Glacier Sazon and Adobo-hear my mother curse Crisp fall leaves on a foggy morning Bottled water to satiate cheap blue raspberry flavor Off father's tongue, his soft cotton shirt Eating bacon-wrapped biscuits at sunset Mangonada energy drink pulse through my veins Sweat dripped down my back in the club A mystic morning in a canoe on a lake I refuse to swim in The stitch of a Blue Jay baseball cap Something you yearn for but can never have elliptical galaxy-the lookout in Alaska where I learned to be small Overcast sky and fresh rain upon Dall Sheep Sweet chili pepper with a hint of tomato Cerulean-The door closed without me Grapefruit juice on the rocks —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/427" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SJ Larsen (they/them)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. alcohol Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Watch the Paint Dry Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource SJ Larsen (they/them) Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: nonbinary Author Tag: white Content Notice: alcohol Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. SJ Larsen is a Washington based poet who enjoys embracing the unexpected twists of writing, delicious word play, and giving new perspectives on the human experience. Their poetry also appears in the Manastash Literary Journal. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/428" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the Paint Dry</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/688">Ode to the Forget-Me-Not</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SJ Larsen (they/them) Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: nonbinary Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document so they can breathe through salt, salmon smoltify. sunlight signals the time to change. skins shimmer; fins’ edges silver. the scent of home imprints, becoming permanent, before they swim to the future. I shimmer sometimes, too. my hair silvers; I learn to filter without flinching. at the edge of permanence and becoming, I breathe deeply. home is the scent of the river changing, and it’s time. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/375">Poppy Yozh (they/them)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource salmonbody Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Poppy Yozh Author Tag: activist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: gay Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: Polysexual Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white