Wolfie

“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

“When
you get here, I'll show you
this incredible thing
we can do to mirrors
just by standing still.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“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

“every child matters. except if they are queer. or traumatized. or if they speak out.”
― jaye simpson, a body more tolerable