STATUESQUE, successful angel.
BISEXUAL, bilingual, blue-eyed beaut.
STRAIGHT-A, straight teeth, straight-acting stud.
MAN with three bolded asterisks.
PRETTY, passing, post-op, femme Steely Dan fan.
JUST A BUSINESS TYPE GUY who likes stockings.
LOVES TRAVEL and reading, but feels younger dressed.
RECENTLY found myself thirsty as calves.
NEWLY FULL throat. NEWLY LEAPING the firebreak.
NEW to gown of thorns.
NEW to the lovely of two-day bruises.
RECENTLY time on my hands and no one to lap at it.
RECENTLY truth, in a blur, in dark window.
QUICK-witted. WELL-groomed. GENTLE-clamberer.
PURE as the driven Vancouver slush, seeks same.
GOOD with tools. SMART as winks.
FLUSH with carabiners, seeks same.
NO BITTER parades. NO HALF-ASSED dancing.
SEEKS unpinioned raptor wing.
MUST kind. MUST swan glance.
MUST NOT be enamored of open sea.
NO MICHIGANDERS. NO JAZZ.
SEEKS same. SEEKS same. SEEKS likewise.
SEEKS levitating trays of sweets.
SEEKS can I put actually raise a child.
SEEKS dick on a stick.
SEEKS cry out my mouth stuffed rock tumbler loud fabric.
SEEKS tall but passable TS for marriage, maybe more.
FOR DUMB lazy lady days, drying our hair.
FOR PROTEST. FOR BIGOT heart attack.
FOR LONG walks in epistemicidal gaps.
FOR THREE jeweled breaths, as easy as you lost track are you there.
HOLD ME, hold me, you goddamn idiots,
WHAT ELSE is worth your ruin and stitches?
WILL RESPOND to anyone.
PROMISE to respond to all.
after 1970s-2000s personals from publications including Gendertrash from Hell, Empathy Magazine, The Transsexual Voice, and Simply Gorgeous.
Callie Jennings (@aporianautics) is a trans writer, musician, & game designer based in Boston. She received the 2025 Zone 3 Editor’s Award, 2024 Stacy Doris Prize, and 2023 Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize, and has work in Fourteen Hills, fifth wheel press, manywor(l)ds, and Fruit Journal. Her newsletter is at threemachineexpression.substack.com, and chances are she’s dancing. Photo by Jamie A.M.