Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #096, Winter 2001.
Questions
by Jonathan Alexander

There is too much time spent in tracing the roughness of my own body. Put your hand away, simple one: I know where you have been and it doesn?t matter. This is the open field of your future. You will smell it first: crisp bread breaking on your knees, but you will not think of the past. You will take this and eat of it. You see it and it is good. The water in the wind nourishes. It is all you need. It is becoming your skin, your mind, the material world that inspires each and every one to be more than the flesh that pimples their bodies with identity. You will take from every thing you see, but don?t be alarmed: nothing will remain the same. This cosmic ***** is all about change, mutation; and it is not all cancer: and you will regret that, at times, too. For it would be simple if everything were the same, but what then would we become?

Jonathan Alexander?s most recent work has appeared in Chiron Review, Sugar Mule, Blithe House Quarterly, Lambda Book Report, and Radical Teacher. He can be reached at jamma@fuse.com.


Murder in Three Parts
by Captain Snowdon

Part One

Careful pluck of brow
Perfect curve
Purple nails with sparkles
Yes
Matching sleeveless mini- dress
Combats boots
After all this is a war

Part Two

A teenager has been bludgeoned to death in Colorado. the teen was apparently abducted from a bus stop wearing lipstick and a dress. his body was discovered earlier today in a wooded area outside Denver...the youth?s name has not been released

Part Three

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Captain Snowdon is a poet, performance artist, activist and street outreach counselor presently living in Vancouver, Canada. Ze published a chapbook in 2000 entitled Offending Intimacies and has recently completed a video poem. Ze also sporadically publishes In Transit, a genderqueer zine. Captain is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Dildo Dialogues.