By Nat Raum
the soundscape of a baltimore summer
is just the hum of a fan that never works
well enough and can never be blotted
out by any amount of dulcet woodwinds
or tarrey town rain. i wonder, though,
do you think late life transness is sort of
like when someone says to link you’re
actually hylian and the chimes ascend
in celebration because it suddenly makes
sense? and i’m really just asking this
because i kind of felt like that when i read
cis people don’t genderswap
in their daydreams and i want to know
if my prophecy is coming before i become
entombed in the plaster of an efficiency apartment.
Nat Raum (b. 1996) is a disabled artist, writer, and genderless disaster from Baltimore, MD. They have a BFA (in photography) from Maryland Institute College of Art and are a current MFA candidate at the University of Baltimore. They are also the founder and editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press and managing editor of Welter Journal. Past and upcoming publishers of nat’s writing include Olney Magazine, perhappened, CLOVES, and trampset. Find them online here.
