mya alexice

adam’s apple

when the world has fallen more still,
and the funds for it gestate from embryo
to birth, a doctor will take the cartilage
from my rib cage and insert it into my 
throat in some truly metaphoric gender 
reversal moment, a nearly tangible examination
of telling the gods of x and y: no, not
today. not trans as in opposite but trans
as in -cend / -form / as in -human i take
what was given to Him and eat it like
the juiciest of fruit, damning us all
in the process.

MYA ALEXICE IS A CURRENT MFA STUDENT AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - NEWARK. THEIR POEMS CAN BE FOUND IN SEVERAL PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS OYSTER RIVER PAGES, THE LEGENDARY, 4X4, QUARTO, AND MORE. THEY WERE ALSO THE WINNER OF THE 2018 COLUMBIA QUARTO CHAPBOOK CONTEST. IN THEIR WORK, THEY ARE EAGER TO CONFRONT HISTORICAL LEGACIES, BINARIES, AND SHIFTING DEFINITIONS OF WHAT HUMANS ARE WHEN THEY LOSE THEIR OPPOSITION TO NATURE.