Jaime Lock’s debut pamphlet is both ‘full of gender’ and steeped in nature. In She will need a stable boy, a beard is ‘gorgeous orange lichen’, a trans body is a body full of seeds, waiting to blossom into flowers. These are poems about sex, the pull of attraction, the intensity of desire, Jaime’s love for Kate Bush, Ocean Vuong, Eileen Myles, their named and unnamed friends and partners. Lock’s careful placement of language throughout these poems shows us their evident love for the reader, too. 

William Keohane

In She will need a stable boy, Lock leads us through fields of transness, grounded by dreams of escape, shoals of trans guys in the gym, and rural rememberings. These are aqueous, honest poems of becoming. Dive in!

Remi Graves

Tender and playful, She will need a stable boy charts the architecture of masculine selfhood with an expert lightness of touch.

John McCullough