Troy Terwilliger’s Reviews > Milk and honey > Status Update

you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant
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you've touched me without even touching me
how do you turn a forest fire like me so soft i turn into running water

emptying out of my mother's belly was my first act of disappearance learning to shrink for a family who likes their daughters invisible was the second
the art of being empty is simple
believe them when they say you are nothing repeat it to yourself
Like a wish i am nothing i am nothing i am nothing

trying to convince myself i am allowed to take up space is like writing with my left hand when i was born
to use my right
- the idea of shrinking is hereditary