Josh Simmons quoted Queer Nature by Michael Walsh
Settling In by Jenny Factor
How I loved each bare floor, each naked wall, the shadows on
newly empty halls. By day, my head humming to itself of dreams, I cleaned and
scrubbed to make life new; dislodging from the corner,
the old moths and cicadas pinned to the screen, the carcasses
of grasshoppers dangling from beams, and each windowsill's clutter of
dried beetles and dead bees. But, through each opening, each closing door,
the old life returns on six legs, or spins a musty web as it roosts over
a poison pot, or descends from above to drink blood in. This is how it
happens: the settling in—the press of wilderness returns to carved-out space, to skin.