Nor Man Nor Woman

Michael Stoneburner, 2024

I am neither man nor woman
divided divinely 
my physicality might perplex you
just a few more cogs added to this machine.
I am neither architect nor carpenter
of this divinely divided body.

It is what it is, what it is, it is.

Aphrodite favours me 
while Narcissus covets what is mine 
you might see a gorgon 
but I see a different model
from a plethora of choices. 

I am neither god nor goddess
perhaps fey – a gay motif 
of the slender divide of a divine angel
with thousands of eyes
eyes of the beholder.

Behold me!

For I am neither defined nor boxed. 
I am born of flesh and bone
dust and dirt divinely guided
to follow in the footsteps of the before
so that after I may rest
in knowing that I was always
and forever be
me 
and the all that I am.