Saturn
restricted in womb
muscle fiber & blood
pushed & shoved out
constricted proof
headfirst
a cord is cut
gravity then inertia
flesh to breath
father where art thou
seven & solemn old
soul among children
first grade afraid
bullied for difference
casted out by boys
awareness shame
love for my grandpa
wrote my first story
art was my only friend
outed from the closet all eyes on me
fourteen it’s all in your head
first time I wore cargo anxiety for breakfast
basketball was life 25 driveway freethrows
was talented lonely in a row in the rain
in love infatuated until I could go inside
knee injury move to rival school
acoustic guitar therapy freshman year
cold turkey fluoxetine first week grandpa dead
deluded & washed out
twenty-one trans/queer
drunk since fourteen
only legal now
ego the size of the sun
singing original songs
whiskey afflicted poet
dropping tabs for better
lack of a prophet
Jaimeson Oakley (He/They) is a writer originally from the hills of Lucasville, Ohio. The poem “Saturn” is inspired by the significant aspects Saturn makes back to its original placement every seven years in one’s astrological birth chart.
