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Named

By SG HUERTA | 01 MAY 2023

By Viviane Sassen — Photo by Ian Livesey

I’ve identified more dead birds than living.
An old friend used to quiz me on flora and fauna,
pointing and asking what’s that? but now won’t
even say my undeadname. A tree, I’d answer,
knowing the mutability of even that. Even that.

SG Huerta is a queer Xicanx writer from Dallas. They are the author of the chapbooks The Things We Bring with Us (Headmistress Press 2021) and Last Stop (Defunkt Magazine 2023). Their work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Infrarrealista Review, and elsewhere. They live in Texas with their partner and two cats. Find them at sghuertawriting.com or on Twitter @sg_poetry.

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I’m done trying to control
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