Glittery Strap-On
Jeni Prater
Poetry
15 October 2025
feels precious like dress-up trying
on and knowing I position
my body a garment I can
slink off gender sticks
like myth in mirrors I am
dazzling in this story of gentle-
packed harness & rope-contoured
titties I pretend glitter could
knock her up but can’t
tell this to my own wife
at first I tell her I’m afraid
to wear what has hurt me but I
am afraid to like it, to part open
her body & see a whole world
Jeni Prater (she/they) is published in Apogee Journal, Frontier Poetry, The Seventh Wave, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Hooligan Mag, Wax Poetry: 45 Poems of Protest & elsewhere and was awarded the Academy of American Poetry Prize at Wellesley College. Their poems explore queer joy and nonbinary parenthood. She holds an MFA from Randolph College and was Accessibility Coordinator for Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam. Jeni lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with their wife, pup, and twin Geminis.