Three Poems – Rose Knapp / Art – Ankh Spice

Cityscapes of Goddesses

Cities emanating from infinities of Big Bangs
Edenic languages in schizophrenic Word
Made flesh salad Word made into fine wine

Cities of trans femmes, mascs & nonbinary people
Adorned in jewels, fine dresses, masc attire, &
Androgynous clothing, all shades of clothes

Towers loom over the cosmopolitan worlds
Robots do most of the labor in life
In this particular world humanity has blended

Itself with the machine to a great extent
Gender blurs and merges with the machine
This particular androgyne feels a certain

Affinity with the machine, still human
& with all that that entails, yet the digital
& the machine one can empathize with

The gray between black & white
The violet between pink & blue
The in-between states of andro

Giving Up the Dream of Passing

Oh to give up the impossible trope dream
Of passing, of becoming feminine
In societies’ queerphobic transphobic eyes

But to give it all up is liberating as well
To live as your authentic selves despite
What social norms dictate you live as

Transfemme, nonbinary, androgyne, queer
Transcending the binary yet pragmatically
Fusions of femme & masc yet none as well

Androgyne Pan Prototyping Odes 

Offering Odes to Nuu
Prime movers primal

Numbers prime genders
Prime androgynes

Prototypes Panentheistic
Goddessxyxesses Giving

SELVESSEXYXNYXONYX
GODADAHHeadadaCCLit
Humanities evolution two

NUU genders
Nuu concepts
Nuu ideas yet

Primeval primordial contemporary
Ultraviolets—peace rose pinks—

Ultramarine royal blues primroses Pi
\\Post—asymmetrical diagonal lines//

Post—fallacious binaries
Implosions sextplosions

Blending fusions in
Modular analogue

Analogos Words
Materialist Flesh

Creatio Ex Nihilo
Deus Ex Machina

Synthesizers syntheses
Holiest Androgeneity in

Between Puritanical
Restrictive reductive

Binaries yet also Transcendentalist Beyonds—
Etudes O’ Nonbinary—summa—things—else—
Spiritus ineffable euphorias & ecstasies—

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Rose Knapp is a Neo—Dadaist, transfemme androgyne poetess and sound artist. She has publications in Fence, Maintenant, IceFloe, Hobart, Superstition Review, and others. She has poetry collections with Beir Bua Press, Hesterglock Press, and Dostoyevsky Wannabe. She lives in Minneapolis. Find more of her at roseknapp.weebly.com and on Bluesky @roseknapp.bsky.social.

Art: Tiny Little Sunflower by Ankh Spice (c) 2025.