Medusa with the Head of Perseus -- Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood -- Metaphors for My Body on the Examination Table -- Essay Fragment: Medical Model of Disability -- When My Doctor First Tells Me I Am a Woman -- On Examination/Dereliction -- Hydrocele -- Discovering My Gag Reflex, an Absence -- There's No Word in English for the First Rain of Any Season -- Burning Haibun -- Ode to the First Time I Wore a Dress & My Mother Did Not Flinch -- All I Ever Wanted to Be Was Nothing at All -- That's So Lame -- Essay Fragment: Moral Model of Disability -- Portland, 1999 -- Heirloom -- Against Yellow -- In the Dream Where I Wake Up in My Physics Class Naked -- They Leave Nothing for the Morning -- Before the Not-Child's Not-Howl -- The Queer Trans Girl Writes Her Estranged Mother a Letter About the Word Faggot & It Is the First Word to Burn -- Family Portrait as Unfinished Meal -- Weeds -- Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched -- Aquagenic Urticaria -- Ekphrasis on My Rapist's Wedding Dress -- Essay Fragment: Tragedy Model of Disability -- An Ugly Poem -- Phlebotomy, as Told by the Skin -- When My Gender is First Named Disorder -- Still Life with Bedsores -- Essay Fragment: Preexisting Conditions -- Ritual of Small Mercies -- Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination Before a Diagnosis Can Be Determined -- Litany of Ordinary Violences -- On Using the Women's Bathroom -- Metaphors for My Body, Postmortem -- Essay Fragment: Economic Model of Disability -- When My Brother Makes a Joke About Trans Panic -- The Body of a Girl Lies on the Asphalt Like the Body of a Girl -- Ars Poetica or Sonnet to Be Written Across My Chest & Read in a Mirror, Beginning with a Line from Kimiko Hahn.
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