The End of The World is Smooth and Round

by Anole Home

The night of my birthday

you put your whole hand in my body

and i put my whole body in your hand

and this is our world

Every year 

i am surprised to be alive i've

clutched the world i was handed

and we’ve softened

both and still

my body softens around you

        r hand 

softens

A queer and trans emerging poet, Anole Home lives in a converted log cabin in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with errant insects. Their work has appeared at trans-survivors.com and in the new edition of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves. When not writing, they are doing clinical social work with young people and their families or obsessing about interior design.