Dylan McNulty-Holmes is the author of the chapbook Survivalism for Hedonists (Querencia Press, 2023), and the longform digital poem Half a Million Mothers, which was shortlisted for the 2022 New Media Writing Prize. His writing has been made into a T-shirt, commissioned by a trade union and read at worker protests, and translated into five languages. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, he’s been featured in journals including DIAGRAM, Puerto del Sol, Redivider, Split Lip, and The New Welsh Review. Find him at dylanmcnultyholmes.com.

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POETRY

My Once and Future Body

By DYLAN MCNULTY-HOLMES

Would tell you how I, fourteen, dreamt of these exact hands / In the latent underside of a wave.