trans bodies are anomalies
bones fracture and snap
you’ve got to cast them together
grab some plaster cast
your anatomy textbook
my home is falling apart
i mean look
the tiles are trickling off the roof
through the vacant gaps
from the sinking wooden rafters
the glass from the windows
has eroded back to sand
lead dust is falling out of my ribs
a coke bottle fell through my pelvis
i’m all wired together
how do you expect me to speak
i don’t have a jaw
throw a sheet over me for now
the teaching hospital
the morgue
has enough of me
no not that sheet
the clean cotton one
i’ll make a nice forgotten-about lamp
Lawrence Lorraine Mullen is a non-binary Philadelphia-based poet and graduate student pursing an MFA in Poetry. They have been published in Crab Fat, Pomona Valley Review, GTK Creative, and Spiral Poetry I.