Dressing as a Trans Man in the Early Morning
She makes sure my binder
is nice & tight against
swollen tumors leeching skin.
The packer is beige & bulging,
safely tucked in jeans too long
for my stature, straining to meet
strawberry standards of mass-
produced men & hormone-growth.
She eases the dark red pricks
from my needle-worn, pincushioned
body, my beautiful wife, my life,
the Capricorn of my arrival.
She peels Band-Aids like
yellow fruit from Eden.
Remi Recchia is a trans poet and essayist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English-Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Cimarron Review. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Remi’s work has appeared or will soon appear in Columbia Online Journal, Harpur Palate, and Juked, among others. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University. Remi’s first full-length poetry collection, Quicksand/Stargazing, is forthcoming from Cooper Dillon Books in 2021.
