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Caelan Ernest

HOMO-EROTICA

Projections of the body
floodlight       with dust
from           the machine,
androgynous    Erotica
tracks             sounds of
hypergloss.    The body

appears on screen in  a
collection of          nude
images—they  couldn’t
contain the agro of  its
flesh.                    What
is Quasi-Cinema  when
even        light from the
machine appears to be

crooked?      Collateral
composites of    myself
crack       as if my hair
contained          gender.

The body Erotic in arc-
hive, I lent myself     to
the digital       glamour
of woman  of man
of                  inbetween
​         of neither--

I exit to the next room.


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Caelan Ernest is a nonbinary poet cyborg clubber living in Brooklyn, New York. After earning their MFA in Writing at Pratt Institute, they began working in publicity at Nightboat Books. They are currently in the process of completing their first book: a serial poem exploring how both digital & IRL environments cause the queer body to undergo multiple puberties. If you don’t see them on the dance floor, you can find them on Instagram @transputation.
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