Each day I crave
I think of all the rooms
One inside another
You might think I desire
the doors — running running
away from this structure.
is containment
only lives somewhere deep
yet to be built
a mother spider —
A bad home maker.
Bullets in the thread.
for remnants
and sons. Here
I pass my days dreamin
into triggers.

new kinds of capture.
in my home like boxes.
Never enough.
release — a bursting from
down the streets
What I need though
I believe my final un-clenching
inside an enclosure
In the web I find
her glass weaving.
Discomfort is an art.
Metal defect in my chest
of daughters
I wait for another wall.
of latches that don’t break.

Robin Gow is a trans poet and young adult author. They are the author of Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy (Tolsun Books 2020) and the chapbook Honeysuckle (Finishing Line Press 2019). Their first young adult novel, A Million Quiet Revolutions, is slated for publication winter 2022 with FSG. Gow's poetry has recently been published in POETRY, New Delta Review, and Washington Square Review. Gow received their MFA from Adelphi University where they were also an adjunct instructor. Gow is a managing editor at The Nasiona.