This feature, chosen by Guest Editor Ty Raso, is from Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead by Jen Siraganian (Perugia Press 2026).
TO THE PURPLE DYE INSERTED INTO MY UTERUS
Oh loveliness, tell me what you see—
which horizon hues open to you. What
I didn’t know I didn’t need to know
until now. Are my fallopian tubes
roller-coaster looped or sidewalk-slick?
Do you detect dangers there? I only
know what I’ve been told. Here
on my crackling paper bed, I am soothed
by our meeting through a screen. Like you,
I looked for home somewhere. Let’s see
each other eye to dye. Find the caves,
the linings. Seek that uncharted I never
explored in person. How lucky are you
to have a place to go. Send forth, tinsel-light
the highways, the potential paths. Announce,
This way, this way. We are all so blind.
The hollows swallow you. You thread through
like cracks in wood grain. Spiraling my lining alive.
I envy your mobility. Bloom my insides.
What doesn’t yet grow needs rich soil.
Uncloak what has yet to seed.
Jen Siraganian (she/her) is an Armenian-American writer, educator, and former poet laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, Best New Poets 2016 and 2025, The Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, the anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, and elsewhere, and she is a winner of the New Ohio Review Poetry Prize and The Writing Salon’s Jane Underwood Poetry Prize. She served as managing director of Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, and she is a Lucas Artist Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California.
Ty Raso (she/they) is a trans character, poet, and teacher. Her work has shared space with POETRY, Electric Literature, The Adroit Journal, Foglifter Journal, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She feels most at home near rivers, and they were a 2023-2024 and 2025-2026 Poetry Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and a 2025 Djanikian Scholar with The Adroit Journal. Her debut full-length collection, MIRROR WOULD BE A BEAUTIFUL NAME FOR A CHILD is forthcoming with Noemi Press in October 2027. You can find her on Instagram @spaghetti_utopia.
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