Eaton Hamilton is the disabled, queer and trans/non-binary author of ten books of creative nonfiction, memoir, fiction and poetry, including the 2016 novel Weekend, and two prior collections of short fiction. They go by “Hamilton” and use they/their pronouns. Recent words with LARB, Medium, and Guernica.
This essay is not about love. Love doesn’t enter into it. We are talking mechanics. Four chambers, ventricles and atria. The mammalian heart, and thus, the bat heart, and thus, the human heart.