your kiss

by nat raum

hot on the heels of katy perry’s
late-2000s bisexual anthem

“i kissed a girl” & probably
just after dodgeball taught me

what bisexual means, i am trans
fixed by the worry lines between

my best friend’s brows, want to
kiss them specifically. don’t we

all? seventh grade self thinks
we do, still pretends to be kissing

a boy when she’s alone with her
pillow, but remembers those

worry lines, commits their creases
to memory with a soft gaze.

nat raum (b. 1996) is a disabled artist, writer, and genderless disaster from Baltimore, MD. They’re the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press, as well as the author of you stupid slut, the abyss is staring back, random access memory, and several chapbooks. Find them online: natraum.com/links.