Wolfie

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

“Before we named the stars, we named the shapes their bodies made.”
― 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

“confession: the want to die is not always the want not to live, but sometimes
the want to live somewhere softer. where the tall grass lulls my body to sleep
where everything promises to stay alive”
― Donte Collins, Autopsy