"Grief is not a checkpoint. It travels with you. It gets there first. It sits beside you and does not speak."
@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social on being trans in exile from the US.
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After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile
There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…
