Close Talking

Connor and Jack discuss Jordan Rice's "Epithalamion." To read the poem, see below or go here: https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v14n2/poetry/rice_j/epithalamion_page.shtml To check out her collection Constellarium: http://orisonbooks.com/product/constellarium-paper/ For the article referenced in the podcast: https://2paragraphs.com/2014/03/what-its-like-to-be-transgender-by-jordan-rice/ Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com. Epithalamion From here, nowhere’s absent shame. The body’s rumored dissolute for its mutability. Even speech— the clear-spoke & the speaking, my mind’s aroar in hoary rasp. No voice carries. I try every one, even apology & rhetoric: the apsis of our fall. Listen. Around us whirs the sex I’m to become—violent, exact. I etch up another voice within your silence. Say I’