ANDIE SHERIDAN

Andie Sheridan is a Chinese-American genderqueer poet exploring trans rebirth as well as transracial adoption in creating new worlds, new bodies, new words.
(​Pomona College '21)

Care Crawls Down the Sky

​I cannot be home where I am. I belong with the viscous sun. Swollen open...

Retrans My Body

​If I were to retrain my body, I would un-fondant the hills of my stomach. (Let's be real, a knife would be involved.) I would know what wisteria looked like...

the airplane didn't crash but she landed in a graveyard anyway

the air draws her  
in as she was born 
of it rather than a legacy 
of blood sacrifice family...

Bodies Like Mine in the Louvre

There will be glory built in wide, dirty strokes on my canvas. Stretching cotton around the rigid wooden pectorals...