Two dogs and they are running

Bonnie Hancell

Well it's growing already

The distance between us

like a day at the beach

And there's two dogs running

in opposite directions They are so

fast on the sand They're so

full of pure joy and high as fuck

The long walk from this is so wholesome

It's terrifying how i learned to smile

At the moment of literally fucking

everything up It's amazing how we heal

exactly like that Is the sea cold

Is that the sky and we are not in it

Is it warm where you are Not

that I can get there sorry

If we are impossible to love

with our clothes on i want to go

swimming in a wedding dress

If we can only get full of water

I want to be a woman with the body of christ

 

Bonnie Hancell is a poet/artist from Northern England. Her work blends themes of trans body horror, queer experience, internet subcultures, personal divinity and social abjection. She often uses creative practice as therapy for ongoing struggles with mental illness and as catharsis for trauma/survivorship. Her poetry has been included in anthologies by Easter Road Press, Poet’s Hardship Fund and Pilot Press and featured in periodicals The Rialto, The Poetry Review and LUDD GANG. Her first chapbook was published by GONG FARM in 2022. Her short collection In This Allegory (Where We Disappear) was published by Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers press in 2024.