Table of Contents
1
Sea glass 11
Teeth & sharp bones (a dialogue) 14
Boy 17
Haunting (a poem in six parts) 20
00088014 26
Her. (i.) 28
Her. (ii.) 29
Metal // biting down // i 30
2
Nogojiwanong // Peterborough 33
The end of a friendship 36
Inheritance 38
// 40
This woman//nookum 41
Urban NDNs in the DTES 44
It is too late: 46
Flinch 48
Loving in the dark 49
Head & heart & hands & health (a poem in four parts) 52
3
Fever 57
Norman fucking rockwell! is lana del rey's greatest album 58
Bedroom hymns 60
In a city without seasons … 63
Beast 66
Decolonial pu$$y 68
Godzilla 70
R e d 72
Beautiful monsters in uncanny valley 74
Perennial love poem 76
ζηλια // jealousy 78
Monstrous bodies 80
4
The seven sacred ways of healing 83
Orality 86
Healing // sacrifice // necessity 88
Waterways 90
Queer // rition 95
Raven 98
About the ones i want to love 101
Notes 106
Acknowledgements 107
About the author 111
