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Tyler R. Harris is a blind queer woman from Dundas, Ontario, Canada. She holds an undergrad and a Masters in History from McMaster University and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Gloucestershire. She attended the Humber School for Writers where she worked on her memoir, “Something Someday,” with Canadian author Diane Schomperlan. She is currently doing her PhD in Poetry at the University of Gloucestershire — examining sexual awakenings from the perspective of a blind woman in a collection called “Read My Body Like Braille.” Her work has appeared in the University of Gloucestershire anthology “Unbreakable,” in Arc Poetry Magazine and on the Swim Press blog.
I hope you have a cute name / Scout or Wishbone / Flanders or Doug / Rick or Trapper.
Braille raised on banisters like gnarled tree trunks canes tapping sounds like nightmare-fueled insects