‘137. Porygon’
— jayy dodd
These dreams are how I pick up my reputation as a liar.
I believe Colette Arrand is one of the most important poets in the community right now. The Georgia-based poet/editor runs The Wanderer, a journal that features queer/trans/femme/gnc poets! Most who know her humorously unique while deftly revelatory subjects (Wrestlers, Pokémon, HGTV & more) are palatable touchstones for the often indescribable reflections Arrand offers readers.
This poem featured in EOAGH, from her series based on Pokémon, is structured between confession & wistful nostalgia. Not a longing for the animated fiction, but the fictions created & manifested for the self. The sentences run on with an interlocking nature, ultimately playing back into themselves though consistently moving the reader forward. Arrand’s work is without pretense yet deeply methodical in voice & subject.