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

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jun 121 min read
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Sweet and Sour Twenty Six 🍋
Solar Return 6/8/25

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jun 102 min read
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Hello, You
My reaction to the series finale of the Netflix show You!

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jun 43 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
May 161 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
May 23 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Apr 223 min read
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Sign of the Times
Simply smutty satire of evangelical Christian bigotry and doomsday philosophy

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Mar 262 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Mar 52 min read
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Starving Artist
I never thought I’d be a starving artist...literally

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Mar 32 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Feb 272 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Feb 192 min read
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I Love You, Mary Jane
A love letter to weed lol

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Feb 161 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Jan 291 min read
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Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
Inspired by the movie of the same name, music I've been listening to, and family trauma

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jan 282 min read
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Gender Fluid
Gender fluid like water running over rocks, fluctuating like the ocean, floating away from the shore

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jan 231 min read
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Souls For Sale
If God is in the details, I’m a skim reader

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jan 171 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Jan 91 min read
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Culture War Crusaders
Congratulations, you’ve “discovered” trans people like you “discovered” America!

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jan 91 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Dec 28, 20241 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Dec 28, 20241 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Oct 23, 20243 min read
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Half-Hearted Hurricane 💔
Rage against the dying of the light
Last but not least, Half-Hearted Hurricane to complete my bisexual series 🩷💜💙

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Oct 6, 20242 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Sep 30, 20242 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Sep 25, 20242 min read
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A Quarter Century of Existence
I’ve been reflecting more on a quarter century of existence. I cried a lot writing this, fuck.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jul 11, 20242 min read
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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 Ariel Dunning
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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Eat the Rich, Save the Poor
Inspired by recent events

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Sep 14, 20231 min read
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Summer Haze
Endless summer days and purple haze
Saturated sin and freshly rolled Js

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Aug 18, 20231 min read
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Burial Grounds
A very short poem (for once) about death (as usual)

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Aug 1, 20231 min read
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The World Ended. Then It Began
A poem about the endless cycle of death and rebirth

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jul 17, 20231 min read
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Bipolar Weather
I'm a native to navigating uneven terrain. I enjoy traversing plateaus and wandering sun-washed valleys until the day is snuffed out.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jun 22, 20231 min read
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Aging Gratefully
Today I am 24, like my parents were when they first cradled me. I feel like a newborn gazing at my future with wonder and fear.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jun 14, 20232 min read
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All Trans Adults Were Kids Once
All trans adults were kids once. We knew who we were then too, but no one listened or believed us.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jun 5, 20232 min read
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I Have a Dream
I have a dream…to not wake up

Zoë Ariel Dunning
May 21, 20232 min read
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Love the Believer, Hate the Belief
This poem is reimagined from the stupid phrase: "Love the sinner, hate the sin."

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Mar 3, 20233 min read
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Hate Mail Addressed to My Ex
I hate that dirty trap house and those decrepit, cruel boys, that tangle of cords snaking around underfoot, your rotten breath and filth.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jan 26, 20232 min read
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Delicious
You could cut the sexual tension between us with a knife

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Jan 5, 20231 min read
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Dysphoria: She’s Not Me
She's Not Me: a poem about how painful gender dysphoria can be

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Dec 26, 20222 min read
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Downswing
Poem about bipolar depression. Disclaimer: Not currently suicidal.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Dec 26, 20221 min read
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No More Lies, Sinner
Yes, I'm talking to you, Christians.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Nov 28, 20221 min read
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Forced Labor Pains
Birthing Tyranny in the Land of the Free

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Nov 26, 20221 min read
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Dear Younger Zoë
I know you. The weird kid whispered about in the halls. The little girl who sat alone at lunch. The closeted child in love with her friends.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Nov 11, 20222 min read
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To My Partner Ash
A gay little poem ❤️

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Oct 28, 20222 min read
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Real Love
Inspired by "Real Talk" by Franny Choi. This is an ideal (poetic) conversation I would have with my mom that will never happen.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Oct 25, 20222 min read
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My Beauty, It Blooms
When I was a 5 year old girl, a boy told me I looked like a monkey, jumping around and screeching with glee.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Oct 7, 20222 min read
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Gay Men Are Just as Rapey as Straight Dudes
He pinned himself on me like a dart to a board. all ego and drive.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Oct 2, 20221 min read
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My Body
A poem about being used and discarded by men

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Sep 16, 20221 min read
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Recognize the Humanity of the Homeless
I don’t see homeless people on street corners as pathetic, lazy, dangerous stains on society...anymore.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Sep 11, 20222 min read
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Conflict of Interest
The wheels on the bus went round and round as you enclosed my small hand in your protective grip, squeezing tighter with each bump we hit.

Zoë Ariel Dunning
Aug 12, 20222 min read
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