In Bones & Tentacles: How To Pivot When You’re Paralyzed tentacles through anthropologist Marc Augé's concept of "non-spaces" to anatomize how the instability of language shapes the body, queerness, and immigrant guilt. Through experimental collage, ars poetica, ekphrasis, and epistolary forms, the collection uses cephalopod logic rooted in queer absurdity and immigration's afterlives. The poems examine how fragmentation and displacement become inheritances nobody asks for, send the banal to breakfast with the uncanny and the grotesque, and trace the tension between agency and paralysis through the language of the marginal and continual acts of self-sculpture that riot against self-erasure.