‘At Pegasus’ by Terrance Hayes is a powerful poem about identity that uses a youthful memory and a contemporary experience to speak about life.
This is a truly beautiful Terrance Hayes poem that fuses together a memory of the speaker's youth with his contemporary experience in a gay club. The scene of dancing men in front of him reminds him of his youth and how he used to understand the world in the same way that he sees these men understanding it. This triggers a skillfully delivered recollection of youth.
How could I not find them
beautiful, the way they dive & spill
into each other,