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M Amory

Love Is [. . .] 1 Corinthians 13:4-5:

​Love is patient[ly untangling laundry,
sorting its black shirts from your black shirts]
love is kind
It does not envy [anything but
your words with friends high score],
it does not boast [so you will do it
for them]
it is not proud [of some of the things
they have done so you open your own
dark and there is a quiet me too, and
there is still our hands reaching for
each other in our sleep].
it keeps no record of wrongs [and this is
how you learn letting go: the first time
there is no shadow on someone’s forgiveness]
it is not easily angered [but still, when it is
bloody knuckles or pillow-muffle yell,
love is mindful of your soft startle,
re-learns a more patient burn
and the first time a glass breaks
you don’t even jump],
it is not self-serving [it is grocery shopping,
and the forced 9am gym; it is nap on the
long car ride home so they turn the music
off and you both can still hear it.]

Biography

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M Amory (they/them) is, like glitter, an intangible light effect made physical, mostly plastic, and often from New Jersey. Their work has recently been published with Ink & Nebula and Crooked Arrow Press. They can be found on Twitter @queerparalethal or Instagram @paralethalleftist or, in real life, under a pile of blankets watching Chris Fleming’s Showpig and thinking about how they’re both aquarius suns with her two cats, both scorpios.

 
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