This poem is a part of unHIDDEN: After C.P. Cavafy, a digital tribute centered on modern queer desire and visibility and whether this is the "later" that Cavafy imagined in his poem "Hidden." Learn more about C.P. Cavafy and the city-wide festival “Archive of Desire”: A Festival Inspired by the Poet C.P. Cavafy here.

About Adam Falkner

Dr. Adam Falkner is a queer writer, educator & performer. He is the author of The Willies (Winner of the 2021 Midwestern Independent Book Award) and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Painted Bride Quarterly, Diode Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Adam is Vice President of Design for the racial equity leadership incubator, The Pahara Institute, and holds a PhD in English & Education from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.