We Are Changed to Deer in the Broken Place sec/ROMANCE so what’s the harm in

so what’s the harm in a little fib

What menagerie

“A triumph of a novel

and political protesters flood the streets with song

We Are Changed to Deer in the Broken Place sec/ROMANCE so what’s the harm inBy Kelly Weber This collection considers what it means to be a queer nonbinary daughter in search of mother and myth as refuges. Inhabiting and breaking inherited forms like the sonnet, the speaker rewrites mythology to find new possibilities of queer transformation within inherited traditions in which bodies not only change to trees and deer to escape the cishet male gaze, but also break the gaze itself. Intimate lyrics chart the interior landscape