Mate for Life

Wake at 5am.
        No more sleeping
Sweet notes
        fuck your window
Singing sparrows
        seek love
curled in your
        sweaty nest you
reach
        and reach
for darkness

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Hershel Burgh is a queer, Jewish trans man based out of Northwest Arkansas. He lives with his partner in a one-bedroom apartment that has no drawers and one cat. His work has previously appeared in ONE ART and ouch! a queer collective.