The dark green, thorny skin of nettle. Hand-written on it: “when all is woven and unspun / with skin grown thick, calloused and strong / will spring uncurl our beaten hands / or will we weave again?” in cursive, once regularly and once mirrored.

nettles

2020

poetry, digital art

When all is woven and unspun

with skin grown thick, calloused and strong

will spring uncurl our beaten hands

or will we weave again?

Published July 2020

sweet thang zine

issue 6: "healing"

A percentage of proceeds goes to FOR THE GORLS, an organisation aiding Black & Trans people with housing and affirmative surgery.