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Many Loves Linger on My Lips
I can’t fit inside monogamy’s confines. I love the days where you’re all mine, but I’m not going to diminish your shine, not going to crush you against me so tightly that you see stars.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Feb 172 min read


Predestined Starseed
Maybe love is the cosmic consciousness folding in half to see what it feels like. Maybe death is just the spirit drifting into sleep in one form and awakening in another without memory of past lives.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Feb 32 min read


Illegal Aliens
Right now Public Enemy #1 is the people who grow most our food, take care of our cleaning and kids too. Americans want to consume Latine culture and cuisine, enjoy their lively music, but not appreciate their labor.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 283 min read


The Big Bang
The Big Bang, the cosmos fucking the ether into conscious existence...he’s free falling, shooting stars all over me, comet tails streaking down my chest

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 201 min read


Jesus Was Gay
I'm gonna piss some people off with this one!!! LMAO I started writing this as a sacrilegious joke but then realized there's actually a historical basis that he might've been gay! Or bi! Or at least there's always been speculation that he is lol

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 72 min read


I Am Zack 🏳️⚧️
I wrote this as 2023 wrapped up and 2024 dawned when I chose my masculine name...and I'm ALREADY coming up on the first anniversary of changing my legal name to Zack Zoë Dunning!!!

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 30, 20252 min read


Pathological Perfectionist
I’m pathologically an uptight perfectionist / My brain is like a dog with a bone, it latches onto a thought and won’t let go / The “overthinking disorder”, forever a Doubting Thomas, questioning everything in existence and my place in it / My life flashing before my eyes everywhere I look

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 23, 20253 min read


Detransitioning
Why does the life of the 1 trans person with regret matter more than the 99 of us with none?? Is that because they believe Jesus would leave his flock, the 99, to search out and find the 1?

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 17, 20251 min read


I'm done arguing with conservative men online
I’m going to show their wives what orgasms are instead

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 9, 20251 min read


Curiosity Called the Cat
You shouldn’t question what’s between someone’s legs...unless they want your face there

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 9, 20251 min read


God Is A Woman
She's My Religion

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 3, 20251 min read


Trans Elder
Trans people deserve to grow old too, and our lives matter!

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 2, 20252 min read


Drowning in Deep Homosexual Desire
I think I’ve come down with Men-ingitis again, a cold case of boy crazy! UGHHH the way they look at me with burning hunger when they want me makes me so fucking ferallll...foaming at the mouth, barking and begging and howling FERAL!

Zoë Zack Dunning
Nov 11, 20253 min read


Wine Into Water
I dilute myself daily, turn wine into water so I can dance better on your taste buds, slip love in your drink, easier to wash down without a bitter trace

Zoë Zack Dunning
Nov 3, 20252 min read


Trans People Aren't Your Experiment
Trans people are held under a microscope. Specimens to dissect, our bodies described in gory detail to elicit shock and outrage.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Oct 27, 20252 min read


Toothache Truth From the Mouth of Eden
My bloodstream already runs with a steady current of ill will. How can a spoiled apple ruin the bunch when I fell and rolled from a tree already rotted to its core?

Zoë Zack Dunning
Oct 8, 20251 min read


; Suicide Prevention ;
I hide commas behind my teeth, spitting those seeds of hope out slowly instead of swallowing them all

Zoë Zack Dunning
Oct 8, 20252 min read


The Saddest Death in Harry Potter Was My Respect for JK Rowling
JK Rowling was my idol

Zoë Zack Dunning
Sep 11, 20253 min read


Make America Depressed Again
Some dark political humor for you 🖤

Zoë Zack Dunning
Sep 1, 20251 min read


Groomers
If trans people wanted to groom your kids, we wouldn’t take hormones for years, get expensive, taxing surgeries, risk losing friends and family, or burn ourselves to the ground and rebuild from the rubble...We’d join your churches and become youth pastors.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Aug 28, 20252 min read


Not Your Fucking Rehab
My Kink is Karma

Zoë Zack Dunning
Aug 6, 20253 min read


4 Years Transitioning! Character, Reassigned and Resurrected
Injecting testosterone has taught me patience, that some pain is necessary for growth and healing. The piercing may be sharp and sting, but I smile through it, relief rushes through my veins, and it’s over as quickly as it cuts...then I grow tougher skin!

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jul 25, 20254 min read


Heteroflexible
I LOVE when a guy says he’s heteroflexible...like okay baby boy, I can make you flexible ;)

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jun 12, 20251 min read


Sweet and Sour Twenty Six 🍋
Solar Return 6/8/25

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jun 10, 20252 min read


Hello, You
My reaction to the series finale of the Netflix show You!

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jun 4, 20253 min read


Elephant Stampede in the Room
I’m drowning from the words left unsaid bubbling up in my head, suffocating from the elephant in the room crushing my chest, choking in the hollowed out crimson cavern of my throat

Zoë Zack Dunning
May 16, 20251 min read


Gay For Guys
As a girl, I always wanted to be gay...but for boys. I kissed a boy *as* a boy and I liked it, felt his stubble brush my lips, crushed our bodies together in the unholiest rush of adrenaline.

Zoë Zack Dunning
May 2, 20253 min read


C-PTSD
Wading through thick puddles of my weeping chest, I’m hot wax melting, crayola bleeding, a record that skips at the best part, iron sharpened too hard

Zoë Zack Dunning
Apr 22, 20253 min read


Sign of the Times
Simply smutty satire of evangelical Christian bigotry and doomsday philosophy

Zoë Zack Dunning
Mar 26, 20252 min read


Wasting Away
I’m hell bent on winning but you will go to your death bed believing I’m sinning before you ever call me your son

Zoë Zack Dunning
Mar 5, 20252 min read


Starving Artist
I never thought I’d be a starving artist...literally

Zoë Zack Dunning
Mar 3, 20252 min read


I Never Fall Out of Love
After All This Time? Always Soulful Love by @Esther_992 on Twitter I still feel the embers of emotions Stirring within me That never...

Zoë Zack Dunning
Feb 27, 20252 min read


A Love Letter Laid on Sappho's Altar 💌
One of my favorite favorite poems of mine to my inner queer girl reclaiming a lifetime of repressed sapphic desire! 💞

Zoë Zack Dunning
Feb 19, 20252 min read


I Love You, Mary Jane
A love letter to weed lol

Zoë Zack Dunning
Feb 16, 20251 min read


Man of My Dreams
I want a man that gets a boner for justice...
I want to hold a man the way thirst holds water
Let every river envy our mouths

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 29, 20251 min read


Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
Inspired by the movie of the same name, music I've been listening to, and family trauma

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 28, 20252 min read


Gender Fluid
Gender fluid like water running over rocks, fluctuating like the ocean, floating away from the shore

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 23, 20251 min read


Souls For Sale
If God is in the details, I’m a skim reader

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 17, 20251 min read


Maybe I Should Only Date Other Poets
I’m fucking tired of carrying the conversation in my relationships. I’m sick of being the superior communicator.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 9, 20251 min read


Culture War Crusaders
Congratulations, you’ve “discovered” trans people like you “discovered” America!

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jan 9, 20251 min read


Dreary Christmas
This my fourth Christmas without my family, and my anxiety is sky high, flying through the frigid air as they pass my roof by.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 28, 20241 min read


Goodbye Apt 831
Goodbye to my first solo apartment, where I discovered intense joy on my own, where I met myself without all the masks.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Dec 28, 20241 min read


Trans Porn Starring in Your Wet Dreams
To the top 10 states that search for trans porn, ripe with patriotism and redneck rage, dripping with the blood of hate crimes

Zoë Zack Dunning
Nov 21, 20242 min read


Poe'sthumous Horror Show
A play on words for Edgar Allan Poe, one of my muses, about the role that trauma has played in my life and how it's taken a toll on me

Zoë Zack Dunning
Oct 23, 20243 min read


Half-Hearted Hurricane 💔
Rage against the dying of the light
Last but not least, Half-Hearted Hurricane to complete my bisexual series 🩷💜💙

Zoë Zack Dunning
Oct 6, 20242 min read


Boundless Bisexuality on the Universe's Shimmering Shore
Bisexual like Gemini, twin flames tangled eternally. Stars by the pocketful, dancing on the edge of duality, that cosmic knife.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Sep 30, 20242 min read


Pink / Purple / Blue Pride
When you’re bisexual everybody assumes you want to fuck them...and they're right! I'm also nervous around everyone!

Zoë Zack Dunning
Sep 25, 20242 min read


A Quarter Century of Existence
I’ve been reflecting more on a quarter century of existence. I cried a lot writing this, fuck.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Jul 11, 20242 min read


Red Dead Revolution
I feel like I’ll be just another casualty on the road to revolution, but we will grow forests in the ashes of capitalism.

Zoë Zack Dunning
Nov 20, 20231 min read


Eat the Rich, Save the Poor
Inspired by recent events

Zoë Zack Dunning
Sep 14, 20231 min read
Poetry
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