AVA HOFMANN

ssnottets

this poems aren’t a
bout of the claxon illness

claxoning away my me
as a functioning rath

er: maze of the many-eyed
face of author the panic at

tacks me to the carpet
greyript by shuffling de

sires the rynth was
andillusion (a deadname)

of the circumstances of
these two crucial facts:

ssnottets

only deeperly creased
furrows in the lang want

transition reform
matted my memories

the next stanza goes
before the first one

when writ unfolds it up
sets me up

i tangle my hair up
obscuring the masc

lines of all sorts of things the
third stanza goes before

ssnottets

at all. something
something beauty

“hole verse thing
feels hopeless” type

image of the image
of a photo but

you can’t quite see
it (pause to think)

it being an it pronouch
child wanting itness

itness was all was a
lowed and lowed a loud

Originally from Oxford, Ohio, Ava Hofmann is a trans woman currently living and working as in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has poems published in or forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, Fence, Anomaly, BAX 2020, The VIDA Review, South Dakota Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Always Crashing, Foglifter, and Denver Quarterly. Her interactive chapbook, THE WOMAN FACTORY is currently available via The OS. She also runs SPORAZINE, a small magazine of experimental writing written by trans people. Her website is www.nothnx.com