#queerpoetry — Public Fediverse posts
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At the club the interviewer
buys me a rum & coke
and asks hi, you’re pretty, won’t you
go out with me? & I admire
his confidence, so I’m polite like no
sir, I’m so sorry, only
I don’t really eat on weekdays anymore...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/looking-for-work-433f51effb31?sk=a5f06598ea496461dd4bf683b6eb5c27 -
Run!
In the opposite direction.
Here she comes.
Preaching the devil.
Oh, a new plague is spreading.
Harbingering death in the name of sapphism...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/this-time-we-fight-love-f5fb8cb3af09 -
It’s late and my memory is fading
So late that I cannot recall
The reason for touching my pen to paper
To record this latest downfall
In the street below a shout echoes
A blurry swift noise of the night...
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I was digging through my hard drive recently and came across this amusing oddity from January 2018, about my (ongoing) love affair with Pierce Brosnan. In true spirit of the open-mic format, try speaking out loud as you read this.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/i-will-always-love-pierce-brosnan-a-poem-4d1caacbb9b2?sk=39c8fca541fc23a6bbf05c1c7021d216 -
Multi- polar identity,
not an Illness.
Moving back and forth...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/zig-zag-a-multi-polar-identity-a-poem-6fe9b3baf3c0?sk=1bf69397d28b1db5b6a5af0f433e39a5 -
Naked, exposed, truth
Mirror speaks about its view
Do they see me too?Comb my tangled hair...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/naked-a-multi-verse-haiku-about-self-affirmation-8f7ce6e88527?sk=f5102149331939b825cb3a0f551e98d4 -
I couldn’t help it,
I was driven,
like a slave,
from her master’s whip.
It did not seem real,
Shame, beyond the pain...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-slave-to-the-urge-a-poem-a-paradox-ff2b3409dd24?sk=b91f6e1ca1c9d5deca9ed0c67f9d32da -
In the feels today/tonight.
Got a poem from it so...
That's something?
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Oh my God,
Why are we forsaken?
How often we pleaded
for peace and comfort,
love and understanding...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/oh-god-dear-god-a-poem-694ae7ad1807?sk=f9bacc8b1caa8f6f22b10614d9f3fe04 -
I did something I haven’t done before and recorded a reading of this poem. I don’t know if it sounds any good, but I think almost all work reads and sounds better when the author narrates it themself.
#queerpoetry #poetry #queer
punkdogblues.substack.com/p/first?r=4j...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xroteaj4q4rvzozflxrz3qkb/post/3mpmoehas2c27
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When Whitman kissed Wilde on the lips,
did the farseeing Tree of Knowledge
shed a leaf or sprout a new one?
Did a noiseless, patient spider catch its prey,
or did it pour forth more filament for a grander prize?Of what asks He are My sailors made?
To reach destinations unfolded
upon a restless sea...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-kiss-435c75cbb6f3?sk=7f7fc315860e6f212c892847268da566 -
Before flying,
She steps through the X-Ray machine,
She becomes energized,
She transitions, into who she is,
Wonder Woman.
...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/wonder-woman-her-transition-in-the-airport-a-poem-65f78395cfec?sk=4ce74d6a24eed695fd7abd83f1b5b03e -
Our eyes locked:
I spoke chancing it in Russian
He answered in English
We walked not quite together
Down toward the river Vltava:
Flowing dark...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/strange-gay-encounter-in-prague-1959-f168ebd0ef23 -
There is a kind of tired that lives in the bones. Not the tired of a long day, but the tired of watching men in good suits decide, again, that our joy is a problem worth solving.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-cost-of-being-seen-pride-2026-poetry-04e27caacf9f?sk=c2fc93a2cc7eaca46a59703e04f1d184 -
I don’t know what else to do
I will wake tomorrow
You have been denied that gift
...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/poem-for-juniper-99abc143cce9?sk=be0bd6f6ca945ad959c09fbd12ea1081 -
The fire didn’t come
With trumpet or flame.
It came dressed in paper,
With numbers and names.It came for the children
Who already knew fear,
For the rooms where their mothers
Had whispered, “I’m here.”It came for the healers,
The records, the doors,
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-fire-and-the-rain-poetry-c8f95cc1609e?sk=ef41065dfbe78865b32befd41009189d -
My love was a pomegranate, bound to rot in the fiery heat. I was going to make Her a pie. I dreamt of Her at night, my Darling my Love, of forehead kisses and strawberry picking...
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We stand apart at the bus stop
You stare for a moment then look away
I fiddle with my hair, embarrassed
Look in my handbag for my passDespite what you may think
I am not so different from you...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/when-it-rains-we-both-get-wet-a6ea0b0001fe?sk=7b25387229e1ad3973f6fa4702e1bc02 -
Call something wrong a thousand times,
It learns to stand alone,
It makes a life beyond the word
That others would have thrown...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/what-we-were-told-to-pull-poetry-23bef2b639c9?sk=6defaf5263372077c7630f6733acde31 -
"I will love you when no song is playing. I will love you when the song is over." — Andrea Gibson (1975–2025)
What you carry past spectacle is the love that stays.#AndreaGibson #Poetry #QueerPoetry #LGBTQ #Grief #Love #SpokenWord
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"I will love you when no song is playing. I will love you when the song is over." — Andrea Gibson (1975–2025) The DOJ is spectacle. Cuba is spectacle. What you carry past the song is what stays. #AndreaGibson #Poetry #QueerPoetry #Grief #Love #LGBTQ
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I have a run of upcoming poetry events—mix of in-person + virtual—featuring *VOIDGAZING* (gender, technology, queer online life):
**Apr 25 (Madison, in person)**
Never Again Action gathering for immigration justice
(poetry: *VOIDGAZING* + *DIFFERENT WITH HIM*)
🔗 https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/event/935395/**May 1 (Zoom, 6pm CST)**
Full *VOIDGAZING* reading (9 poems)
🔗 https://www.redrosethorns.com/event-details/a-live-reading-of-voidgazing-by-mk-zariel**May 8 (Discord)**
Reading from *VOIDGAZING*
(DM for RSVP)**May 21 (in person)**
Headlining Cliterati Open Mic @ Charis Books & MorePoems about:
→ doomscrolling
→ group chats & surveillance
→ gender as something iterative
→ queer community onlineWould love to see folks there.
#poetry #queerpoetry #transpoetry #immigrantjustice #reading
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When the cameras turned away, she stayed
With fire in her chest, unafraid
When the doors were closed by fear and power
She became a voice in the darkest hour...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/profile-in-courage-raquel-willis-poetry-77deb0b51e74?sk=a97712e4759041e2c082664b649e719a -
Live Zoom reading of my chapbook *VOIDGAZING* (gender + technology + queer online life) on **May 1, 6pm CST**.
🔗 https://www.redrosethorns.com/event-details/a-live-reading-of-voidgazing-by-mk-zariel
Expect:
→ “every social feed” doomscroll poetry
→ group chats as panopticon
→ trying on genders like outfits
→ parasocial chosen family
→ “get loved, loser—get absolutely fucking treasured”I’ll be reading the full book (9 poems).
If you’ve ever felt too online / not real enough / or both at once, this is for you.
