Topaz Winters Topaz Winters is the author of So, Stranger (2022), Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (2019), and poems for the sound of the sky before thunder (2017). She lives between New York and Singapore.

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Topaz Winters

The god is wrapped in a blue towel. Mascara clumping their lashes. On the bathroom floor, a dozen Q-tips hemmed with waterproof eyeliner. The man is coming in an hour & they are trying to look as fuckable as possible when he photographs them for his shrine. The god is changing the bandages around their torso. The god is wearing noise-canceling headphones trying to drown out the devotees. Before they...