This poem is taken from Terror Matrix, where it is a paean to love that breaks up a nightmare-scape of poems in which the "war on terror" and the war which gender is collide.

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Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts, where she is building the Threshold Academy, which consists of a future bookstore and alternative educational space in Western Massachusetts and online in collaboration with the Operating System. She co-curates the But Also house reading series. Zoe is the author of Soft Investigations (Daisy Mayhem Books 2019), Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light 2014), and is currently writing the book of bella and blogging about books. Visit her website at zoetuck.com