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[alonso ramoran]

Quick note for posters, 
This poem is ostensibly about my experience as a trans woman; and the people who wish to push me back into the uncomfortable disquietude of self silence.
Just pointing this out as it seems that that was missed.

That was not missed in my reading, but I'm sorry it could have come across that way. My comments spoke to the quality of the poem and not its content. I hope anything that I or other posters have provided so far will be of some use in the revision process since I believe that's why you shared it in one of the critique forums.

It's probably because I've only been rereading this one collection of poetry by Louise Gluck, but the narrator's tone of your piece reminds me a lot of hers in The Wild Iris.