Dr. bird has been sharing their poetry on their WordPress blog called OiseauxWords since 2017. This nine-part poetry book documents various identity-based violences as a young millennial set against a backdrop of the socially and sexually violent U.S. landscapes from the 1990s to the present.

+ Their first collection of poems explores various themes, including challenges in adolescence, troubled youth, drug use, suburban life, dysfunctional families, abuse, masking true identity, emotional detachment, femininity, passage of time, sexual harassment, menstruation, mundane aspects of life, depression, and different responses to trauma.

+ Dr’s second poetry installment focuses on millennial-aged devalued AFAB sexuality and survivor experiences in the U.S. It addresses themes such as performative nature of sexuality, censorship, vulnerability, innuendos, desires, dynamics between subject and object, wordplay, technology’s influence on sexual experiences, absence and yearning during COVID-19, longing for touch, and intense encounters.

+ The third segment of poems explores millennial-aged feminine love, touching on codependency, alcoholism, existentialism, friends with benefits, loss, yearning, memory, passion, digital connection, autism, art, lust, melodrama, and survivorship.

+ The fourth collection vividly captures the experiences of a millennial AFAB individual navigating socio-sexual landscapes from the 1990s to the present COVID-19 era. It explores themes such as societal norms, motherhood, power dynamics, technology, communication, dysfunction, eating disorders, substance abuse, resentment, memory, healing, and transformation.

+ The fifth section focuses on the author’s experience of coping with her mother’s lung cancer diagnosis and covers themes such as distanced grieving, depression, trauma, coping, death, relationships, and love.

+ After a technological failure on the Kindle platform, the author faced that obstacle by creating two other micro-chapbooks, exploring themes such as blogging, loss, becoming infatuated with someone who admitted they had “sociopathic tendancies”, identity, sobriety, vulnerability, masochism, and isolation.

+ Part two of that delves into themes of perspective, physicality, nature, dreams, love, late-in-life realized queernesses and autism, femininity, nostalgia, solitude, and the interplay between reality and perception.

+ The eighth selection explores memory, touch, sensuality, femininity, happiness, loss, observation, trauma, love, and present-COVID-19 life.

+ The final collection explores ongoing extreme isolation, realizations, love, relationships, nature, and societal issues, inviting readers to contemplate deep emotions and experiences.

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