Kristin Chang - MUZZLE MAGAZINE
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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: 
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