The Lyme Letters is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir. R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery through recurrent letters to doctors, pets, family members, lovers, and a "Master." R, in letter form and repurposed religious texts, also explores the paradoxical experiences of queer non-reproductivity, chronic illness and disability, and the healing that can be found in the liminal spaces between.
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Your bellish voice woke me last night when dreaming
our lifetimes living with packs of neighborhood dogs----remember?
Cat-lady & sister hated the dog-life & so again please understand
——
& turning to you age five to whisper sweet nothings sweetly
in your hollowed out ear that empty heart
of sisters & sapphire & silver & strings:
hair caught ’round a throat & choked out dry as bone charr a body full of waiting holes
(a body full of waiting holes
filling with sister
& sister
& sister
)
Please
understand why I left sister-barren
narrow-hipped
I didn’t want to pray for plagues but saw the snakes circling poles
saw the rotting
bodies prostrate in worship saw the red-sea storm drowning----
(ticks in buzzing clouds
& fangs in furring deer & rats)
——
Believe me: your unborn babies grow in my mind but I understand why you saw at that three-stringed chord:
you ghost
me spirit
three fraying strings
you’ll need to cut eventually
you know . . .
& since fangs & vectors make you squeamish? You’re wrecked already
in...
Table of contents
DISCLAIMER: The poems in this ebook will differ slightly in layout from their original print versions. Due to the nature of ebooks, lines will break in places other than those the author originally intended. Please Consult the print version for the author’s intended layout.
My Dearest Family Members, Blood Co-op & Never-Ending Transfusions,
My Dearest Blueness, Greatest Shiva & Eema, Closest ’Amma,
My Dearest of Horsemen, Wonder Boy of Stoves,
My Dearest of Gold & Yellow Days, My Third Whatnot or Whathaveyou,
My Dearest Mountain, Living Memory & Master, My Text,
My Dearest Dr. xxxx,
My Dearest of Furred Companions, Mon Chat Blanc,
My Dearest Dr. xxxx,
My Dearest of Hairy Companions, Mon Chien Blanc,
My Dearest Mare Out to Pasture, Broken Phone Line & Covered Tracks,
My Dearest Mare Out to Pasture, Broken Phone Line & Covered Tracks,
My Dearest of Pyramids, My Fisher of Logical Men & Teddy Bears,
My Dearest Blueness, Greatest Shiva & Eema, Closest ’Amma,
My Dearest Family Members, Blood Co-op & Never-Ending Transfusions,
My Dearest of Pyramids, My Fisher of Logical Men & Teddy Bears,
Hewn
My Dearest of Horsemen, Wonder Boy of Stoves,
My Dearest Dr. xxxx,
xxxxxx xxxxx Clinic, llc
My Dearest of Hairy Companions, Mon Chien Blanc,
Hewn
My Dearest Thing 1, My Electric Blonde Hair,
My Dearest Dr. xxxxx xxxxxxx,
My Dearest Dr. xxxxx xxxxxxx,
Psychological Services, P.C.
My Dearest Dr. xxxxx xxxxxxx,
My Dearest Mare Out to Pasture, Broken Phone Line & Covered Tracks,
My Dearest Mare Out to Pasture, Broken Phone Line & Covered Tracks,
My Dearest Blueness, Greatest Shiva & Eema, Closest ’Amma,
My Dearest of Horsemen, Wonder Boy of Stoves,
Hewn
My Dearest of Pyramids, My Fisher of Logical Men & Teddy Bears,
My Dearest Smoking Room, My Funnel of Silence,
My Dearest of Hairy Companions, Mon Chien Blanc,
My Dearest Mountain, Living Memory & Master, My Text,
My Dearest Cure,
My Dearest Family Members, Blood Co-op & Never-Ending Transfusions,
Hewn
My Dearest Cure,
My Dearest Ezekiel,
My Dearest of Moon Tides, New-ish Limb from Hewn & Narrations,
My Dearest of Hairy Companions, Mon Chien Blanc,
My Dearest of Selves, Tire of Thine Eyes & People in the Morning,
My Dearest of Moon Tides, New-ish Limb from Hewn & Narrations,
My Dearest Blueness, Greatest Shiva & Eema, Closest ’Amma
My Dearest Ezekiel,
My Dearest of Selves, Multiple of R & Are, This Bent Knee of the Land,
