Taylor Nicole S.
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Taylor Nicole S. [they//them] is a queer writer studying poetry at The Writer’s Foundry in Brooklyn, New York. Their work is experimental in both form and content, discussing gender, queer sexuality, and spirituality in a similar breath to Beat writers. Taylor considers their poems anomalies that defy norms, beautifying the ugly.
[woman on the grass]
all of new york: face this Communist Beauty, Naomi—
married in the promise of summer each august. fistfuls of grass,
dandelion weeds web into rings on her fingers,
plump with the delicious feta and espresso of our moonlit breakfast. Naomi,
you are holy, born anew under bushwick lights,
pink and red tattoo signs coat your olive skin. eat the end of me, and the end
is the river inside my throat, branding me with a fear
to be free. O, silent Naomi, take this stream
into your evolution, make of it a song—long to hear
your own voice again, and remember that
your music, the song of your O glorious
womb, will barter away our terror
of shared, mad hallucinations. Naomi, together
we will find that death is nothing
but the fear that eternity has neither a beginning
nor an end—death will take us
to a place where august is every month, where
the moon kisses the concaves of your collarbones
every time i fill your belly warm. all of humanity will call you
the Mother of the universe, but i will call you
my Naomi
now and forever.
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