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Honey-eater, Rick Hollon
CW: bodily injury including broken bones, scarring
Honey-eater marked my sunburn
shins split and granite battered
scratches on broken wrist and ulna
carried me teeth to sternum, pierced
a bundle of snapping twigs
I sprouted in fireweed, snowmelt
ran staircase down thighbone scar
my tongue in butterflies, my tongue
holding a secret name down my throat
sweet, confounded through pollen
Honey-eater, honey-eater eat
my name rigid in roots, calcined
larch and lodgepole skeletons
I bite your fur, I nurse a tangle
mycelium bound, sensitive cavity
Rick Hollon (they/them or fey/fem) is a nonbinary, intersex, bi/queer writer, editor, and parent from the American Midwest. Feir writing has appeared or is forthcoming in perhappened, Whale Road Review, Moss Puppy Mag, the HELL IS REAL anthology, and elsewhere. Find them on Twitter at SailorTheia.