Live Oak, with Moss Dress & Hair gender no longer implies being

gender no longer implies being simply male or female

and celebrates the micro-revolts of those on the outskirts

fragmented and tinged with grief

But to survive as an undocumented immigrant

Live Oak, with Moss Dress & Hair gender no longer implies beingAs he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same sex love, composed decades before the word "homosexual" came into use. This revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was never