Sudden Queer Birth Syndrome Style:Paperback or a dragon to keep

or a dragon to keep them apart

Polly’s orders are simple

despite their obvious attraction to one another

But Malini and Priya's souls remain as entwined as their destinies

Sudden Queer Birth Syndrome Style:Paperback or a dragon to keepBy: Eli V. Rahm Sudden Queer Birth Syndrome is an extractionvisceral, wet, uncanny. These poems explore the idea of birthing your own sexual and gender identity, from the graffiti covered trains of Berlin to the sun soaked, ochre streets of Virginia. Here, domesticity is rendered both loving and raw, vampiric and tender. The babies in this chapbook thrive in hybrid bodies, as dog headed foxes, boy killing rats, or rotting betta fish. Elis writing is