The collection

Thoughts on Weightlessness

A poetry collection about transition: early fear and frustration slowly fading into love and wonder, and a body that starts to feel like home.

Cover of Thoughts on Weightlessness by Ari Drennen: a figure with arms outstretched on a misty mountaintop

Beginning with coming out in December 2018 and the start of hormone therapy the following summer, these poems document the years a life spent bracing slowly became a life spent wanting — gender, grief, joy, and the strange physics of becoming lighter.

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