pInspired by Rita Dove's groundbreaking emThomas and Beulahem, emConnor Seal emis a masterful queering of poetic lineage. With oracular grace and whimsy, these poems innovate the public and private axes of gay love in a tumescent future. We meet Connor, a native Nebraskan and fledgling grant writer, and Seal, a financial analyst from Kingston, Jamaica, as they flummox the space between desire and demise, the sun again a big orange pill stuck in the blue throat of the sky. emConnor Seal emserves as almanac to a future ruck with technoqueer boy bots, cruising, and a grim coterie of state-sponsored violence. With imaginative dexterity and stylistic flexibility, each poem in emConnor Seal embecomes a cipher of the labor of tomorrow's construction a bench where two old faggots had to stop, an emblem of a future history, as quiet as the siren is alarming. br p