With any luck, we’ve laid enough groundwork in the previous parts for me to dive right in with my own poetry of queer belonging. I hope each of these will either describe that impulse to ‘perform belonging’, or perform it directly as a speech act. And if I’ve done my job well, there will be a scrap of something relatable to anyone who draws a sense of belonging the (queer)platonic relationship in their life.
I present these three poems here without additional commentary:
