At Last Sight
Her wife asked decades after fever took
her sight if she feels bitter to be blind.
Sybil (all) is a queer theory professor on an island in the Pacific and lesbian stereotype all around, who published academic erotica in Autostraddle and academic essays under their own name.
Her wife asked decades after fever took
her sight if she feels bitter to be blind.
I talk my way into my lover’s dreams.
Was that the right turn? she demands as I read her to sleep.
‘Where are we turning?’ I whisper, ‘I’ll follow.’