– after “It is essential… to undertake
                   the reconstruction of the primordial Androgyne
                   that all traditions tell us of… within ourselves.”
                   André Breton & Androgyne III
                   (1985, Magdalena Abakanowicz)


as if these definitions –

she and him, she and her, 
he and him, they and 
her, they and him, they
and them, she, they, him

– weren’t enough, the dark 
blurs of who, what, and why 

coil their supple excesses
through the night hours 
and behind walls – when
the heart only

knows the heart

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Sam Rasnake is the author of Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Press, forthcoming), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press) and Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit). His works have appeared in Wigleaf, Stone Circle Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, UCity Review, Best of the Web, Southern Poetry Anthology, and Bending Genres Anthology. Follow Sam: Bluesky @samrasnake.bsky.social.