Different with Him by M.K. Zariel

From rockwoodpress

Different With Him is a collection of haphazard masculinities, an effort to find belonging, a lovesong for genders and genres in flux. Each poem doubles as a late-night text for the trans boys who reinvent the world together at 1 a.m., the cis boys who could use a little reinvention themselves, and the subcultures that can empower or break them. From classic inner-voice scenes to an overly dramatic debate at an anarchist convergence, this chapbook describes the ephemera of a transmasculine adolescence, the joys and failings of homosociality, and the experiences that negate and reinvent us.

Different With Him by mk zariel is a rare blue jewel—part hymn to transmasculinity and desire itself, part nonlinear stream of consciousness that flows like running water, part 3 a.m. lyric. Don’t let the brevity of this book fool you—it unfolds in ever deepening layers, and I find some new wonder every time I revisit it. Different with Him is highly worth a read, then another, then another, because these lines will seep into your bones.