Dominik Parisien
My body is a spaceship designed to optimize the proliferation and growth of its microbial cosmonauts.
-Adam Dickinson
The myth of body
is this
impermeable
place
this state
of being
never porous
when the me
is almost
wholly
made up
of others.
Dominik Parisien is a writer, editor, and poet. His recent work can be found in The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, Riddle Fence, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook, We, Old Young Ones was published by Frog Hollow Press in early 2019. Dominik is a disabled, bisexual, French Canadian. He lives in Toronto.