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Colostral Immunity

grieving

stillborn possibilities,

I miscarry myself.

my birthmarked brain

is aching for sense

gray matter

hold the thought!

haunting futures,

registration closed.

behind deadline,

I’m séanceing

the ancestry

of who I have become.

and almost

inhabit

my hallucinating body of work.

brainfuck me, babes.

go wild

with my incorporealities.

meet me

in the longing

for what’s yet to be born.

show me

how you’d be a good father,

and find yourself

another uterus.

About the Author

Leonie Hesse (*1987) is a Berlin-based writer, artist, and systemic change-maker, working across poetry, autofiction, sculpture, and installation. Colostral Immunity examines the collapse of self under the demands of care, the loss of access to creative and intellectual community, and the subtle tensions when a lover’s longing for a child becomes an unspoken claim on one’s body, time, and interiority. In this space, anger, grief, and disorientation emerge, but also a strive to insist on creative personhood and remain visible to oneself. Currently, she is writing a novel that asks: how do we reclaim ourselves after domestic violence, and what does it take to open fully to relational and ecological being?