torrin a. greathouse > Quotes

“Before we named the stars, we named the shapes their bodies made.”
― torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

“The color my mother painted the whole house when my father was drowning in a bottle, believing instinct would drag him like any good animal toward the light. How he once tried to hollow his lungs into our swimming pool & couldn’t stop his body from surfacing, so he went looking for a gun instead.”
― torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

“I want to make this violence a stranger in my mouth. I want to make it something worth remembering.”
― torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

“I will not let this become another metaphor for how my family taught me my body as another name for pyre.”
― torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

“For any metaphor I can put to it, the dress is still beautiful. Pale & soft & pure & isn’t this just like my poems? Dressing a violence in something pretty and telling it to dance?”
― torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound