Shoreline and Layers of Kin
by Annette Covrigaru

layers of kin
i never thought
to name you
until they did
& even then
the sensation
of namesake
muted fresh
bloodink.
it’s true –
i met you with
sunpink skin,
with skin sky
itself.
naked frameless
in my bk apt,
bathed in your
motion, i
gave you my
feet to
dance through
soil.
i offered
a body that’s
already
yours.
Annette Covrigaru is a gay, bigender American-Israeli writer and photographer. They’ve been awarded a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Nonfiction Fellowship and a Home School Hudson Poetry Residency. Their poetry, nonfiction, and essays have appeared in Peach Mag, Yes, Poetry, and Hey Alma, among others, and are collected at annettecovrigaru.com. Their debut chapbook Reality In Bloom was released on the last day of 2020 from Ursus Americanus Press. – get it here. They live and roller skate in Brooklyn. Twitter: @annetticov