My Love is a Thistle

I fell in love with another trans woman, and I’m still catching my breath.

Theresa Jean Tanenbaum
The Pink
Published in
1 min readAug 19, 2020

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My love is a thistle, tenacious and beautiful
Her mysteries forever unfolding, through prismatic personas
aspects of past traumas etched in her bones
My love was a soldier and a peacemaker
and a caretaker
And she’ll regale you with stories of far off lands
Music flows through her hands
which I know are…

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Theresa Jean Tanenbaum
The Pink

Just your regular transgender, polyamorous, Sapphic, AuDHD, disabled, Jewish, witch. Making music, poems, stories, games, and trouble.