Kristin Chang - MUZZLE MAGAZINE
muzzlemagazine.com · 335 words · saved by 1 readers
how our bodies domesticate disaster: by swallowing another country’s rains. By reining my jaw...
​Kristin Chang - MUZZLE MAGAZINE Home Spring 2026 Submissions Archives Blog a postcolonial portrait of the girl loving a girl by Kristin Chang ​how our bodies domesticate disaster: by swallowing another country's rains. By reining my jaw to the sea, my bones lurched into boats. My breasts bitten into apples. My mother says women who sleep with women are redundant: the body symmetrical to its crime. Between your knees, I mistake need for belief in a father figure: once, we renamed our fathers by burning them out of our bodies, smoking the sky into meat. I have my father's name: 
related reading
- Resident evil - internet princessinternetprincess.substack.com
- Resident evil - internet princessinternetprincess.substack.com
- Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breathonbeing.org
- touching me, touching you - by brit - booritneybooritney.com
- Motherratsfromrocks.substack.com
- The Cleaving | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
- Trans/War Boy/Gender: The Primitive Accumulation of Tsalvage.zone
- Mother, Grow My Baby - Boston Reviewbostonreview.net
- “Constellation,” by Andrea Bajani | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- Literary Hub >> Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality, and Beyondlithub.com
- Fluid Dynamicsbethesdamagazine.com
- eileen gu, alysa liu, and the gaze of the chinese mothergiraffetales.substack.com