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

“Because when a man & a man make
love, they make
only love.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“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

“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