Hannah/Hans Kesling

Hannah/Hans Kesling is a poet living in Portland, Oregon. They have a BA from Lewis & Clark College and an MFA from Indiana University. You can find their work in Nonbinary Review, Public School Poetry, new words {press}, The Elevation Review, About Place Journal, and others. Read more of Hannah’s work at hannahkesling.com/poetry. Hannah/Hans recommends the Native American Youth and Family Center.

"Your grown child plays make believe" and "The story you told when you drove down for parents' weekend after I came out"

I’m pretending to be you, Daddy. I’m biking to the meeting and I see an aquarium in someone’s trash and I think, I want that, so I get off my bike and hide the aquarium between two bushes and then I get back on the bike and go to the meeting.

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