by Jamie Evan Kitts
Minnie maps the acid wash on
her first tie-dye leggings
half-stained like her records scratched in
navy interlude
half-stained like the rock salt rubbed in
new pink shirt day wounds
brown-bags boxy bootcut denim
fit for marsh blue pulp
knows dye can fix what isn’t broke per
sketchbook pastel comfort spikes
smiles at her ren
hugs her mom
passes pens to every ibling
pretend the fabric plaster
and we pre-teens with markers
sign a name that I can call you
in the white between the pink and blue
JAMIE EVAN KITTS (she/her) is a trans a-spec lesbian, settler on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik People, and former managing editor of Atlantic Canadian Poets’ Archive. Once employed to platform emerging poets and scholars, her own work now appears in the Malahat Review, Hungry, Qwerty, and elsewhere.
to move with a sea of names can be found in Augur Magazine Issue 5.1.
