Tyler Orion is a queer, trans writer and photographer living in rural northern Vermont. Orion works at a small, independent bookstore, is a reader for the Maine Review and has work forthcoming or published recently in Brevity, Isele, Allegory Ridge, Mount Island, and in an anthology from Damaged Goods Press.

POETRY

Excerpt from “Inferior Normal"

By TYLER ORION

my body as landfill, as food for rats, /
as slime on plastic bottles and broken washing machines.