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Image Description: A digital collage with a heading that reads “Dating apps for lesbians.” The top part shows a plate of pastries with a pineapple icon beside it. The lower section includes an image of a calm lake or ocean with a stone pier. Overlaid text contains a poem.
Poem verse from M.H. Noman’s poem, “Postcards from the Dead Air.”
This is a story of two lovers suspended in different worlds: Sigrid, stranded in the desolate land of Chicago, and Frida, bathing in the otherworldy blues of Chefchaouen. Their love blooms in the digital ether, surrounded by likes and hearts and “you matched” pings.
This verse and picture try to answer: What does it mean to fall in love with someone you can’t touch and how do you desire someone who exists only in language?
“What does a pineapple taste like?” is a question that is deeper than culinary curiosity as this poem verse hits on different aspects of sex. How can technology fully encompass the sensational gravity for sex? Pineapples resist language. They are sweet but also bitter, fibrous, acidic. No matter how vivid the words, sensory experience can never be fully explained. How can you feel something described to you, when your body has been left out of the equation?