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.