levitate me, lover
it takes two trans people to sext without naming
to touch every inch without measuring
to say wet and slick without saying how
to say come and for me without saying with what
to say spoon me like our bodies fit perfectly because
the purpose of your spine is for curving yourself
against me
to say push your fingerprints against my hand
like palmistry please clasp my knuckles
like we’re praying because goddamn if this
isn’t holy
to say fill me up fill the space beside me on top beneath me
with your softness your warm dewy lawn-scented skin
I want to fill you put my fingers in your mouth
spit-soaked writhing look into your eyes
while I fuck you
fuck you body against hungry body because
we’re all just skin against sea salt sweat against itching skin
against the world
just typing texting touching and conjuring revolution
in our beds
About the author
Rae White is a non-binary transgender poet, writer and zinester living in Brisbane. Their poetry collection Milk Teeth (University of Queensland Press) won the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Rae’s poem ‘what even r u?’ placed second in the 2017 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. They are the editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives.
