T. Dallas Saylor

ON OPENING

your hands hang 
in oracle, my mouth

the green consuming 
the grass—say

the hard things, say 
what needs to burst 

& after the yes 
the great stone burns 

the park, the wasps
come flower-charmed,

will have what’s left
of my broken earth—

I love you, I need 
to love others too

T. Dallas Saylor is a PhD student in poetry at Florida State University, and he holds an MFA from the University of Houston. His work meditates on the body, especially gender and sexuality, against physical, spiritual, and digital landscapes. He currently lives in Tallahassee, FL.