Gabriel Noel is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet who received his Bachelor’s for Theatre Arts and English at Salem State University. Gabriel’s work has previously been featured by new words {press}. Gabriel lives in Salem, Massachusetts and loves spending time with his partner and friends going to concerts or karaoke.
O UNGENDERED & SEXLESS COURIER OF GOD
Say my name three times like a ghost
& I appear, hornless
on the eve of reckoning.
You see,
there is no faith that
I hide when I speak of god.
He plays all the roles
that I play as an
understudy.
All the parts of my body
that are genderfucked are
named after god because what
else can I call the parts of me
that I have made divine.
Ask yourself,
when you look at a moonflower
does it look divine after you pry it open
or after it parts it’s legs willingly
in the moonlight?
Pull my tongue forward
forked it may be,
to some kind of heaven.