#wound from the mouth of a wound

[invisiblemonstrosity]

FAMILY PORTRAIT AS UNFINISHED MEAL - TORRIN A. GREATHOUSE

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CARCASS OF BEEF - CHAIM SOUTINE

#love this painting #it’s from 1925 if anyone is wondering #and this poem my god #I’m reading wound from the mouth of a wound by torrin a greathouse and she’s phenomenal #chaim soutine #carcass of beef #art #painting #artist #torrin a. greathouse #wound from the mouth of a wound #family portrait as an unfinished meal #poem #poetry #typography #writing #words #aesthetic #aes #h8 #wound #poetry edit #poem edit #edit #poet parlay

[smokefalls]

The body is a fickle / language.

torrin a. greathouse, “Still Life with Bedsores” from Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

#torrin a. greathouse #Wound from the Mouth of a Wound #quote #poetry #queerlit #2022 reads #Sealey Challenge

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse

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These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this poetry collection yet, but I love the cover and I'm very interested in checking it out.

#wound from the mouth of a wound #torrin a. greathouse #torrin greathouse #polls #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #lgbt books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #poetry #to read #trans woman #own voices

[romanticbroadcast]

Forgive me. I cannot find the poem in all of this, but I can’t bear to let it go unspoken. I want to make this violence a stranger in my mouth. I want to make it something worth remembering.

— torrin a. greathouse, “Litany of Ordinary Violences” (from Wound from the Mouth of a Wound)

#quote #literature #words #poetry #torrin a greathouse #wound from the mouth of a wound

[reallooney]

Types of books my old high school English teacher recommends to me: Nietzsche, historical fiction about Cromwell.

Types of books I recommend to him: poetry about being trans, The Secret History.

Do you think he'll like them? Lmaooo

#the secret history #wound from the mouth of a wound #yes I am aware i'm living the queer kid overly attached to their high school english teacher dream #five years later and we still email #no i do not take it for granted

[bones-ivy-breath]

On Examination/Dereliction by Torrin A. Greathouse, from Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

#on examination/dereliction #torrin a. greathouse #quote #typography #aesthetic #dark academia #dead academia #original post #wound from the mouth of a wound #disability #bodymind #dark things #the self #disability poetry #disabled authors

[kavehk]

I had to unlearn lame as the first breath of lament. I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak me into a funeral, an elegy in orthodox slang. My dad used to tell me this old riddle: What value is there in a lame horse that cannot gallop? 

A bullet & whatever a butcher can make of it.

- Torrin A. Greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

#torrin a. greathouse #wound from the mouth of a wound #poetry

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

the absolutely Vivid reality based chronological dream i had last night. man

#i got a job at like... an automobile warehouse or something? #we had to change a large trucks tires... #and i was sent to get some more from across the block or whatever #and its more complicated than that - there were conversations and interactions with people etc #and i was trying to find it but it was all like... in this corridor shopping mall? #the signs were western themed and listed items that you could get in that store #though i think it was all free? #anyway at some point it opened into a restaurant and i had a friend there who was carrying a plate for people who left prematurely #so i of course started shoveling it into my mouth - free food! but their manager caught us #and i had to be all 'hey i work around here im just lookin for tires and no one was gonna eat this anyway' #it was like... a rice/mango/cream thing...? strange because i dont like mangoes! #long story short i had to go back for the tires bc i wound up forgetting them. something about a dog.... #i was too late in getting the tires so i had to go sort rubber bolts instead :/ at least the warehouse was cool #absolutely unprompted #but it was very. linear. and it felt very real. like it was genuinely a place and a job that could exist #like i remember what the outside loading area looked like. the packed restaurant. the corridor. the warehouse. the lockers. the hallway #IF I HAD A BETTER MEMORY I STG I COULD MAP IT OUT #god i love my dreams. they're always plot based and im rarely myself <3

[introspectivememories]

cannot stop thinking about lupa and juno's reactions to jason's death. god did juno feel it when he died? did she hear his string get cut? did she wail loud enough that all of olympus heard it? what was it like realizing the boy she loved like a son was dead? was was it like watching his father not even shed a tear? was she the one to tell lupa? and on lupa's end, how angry do you think she was? this is her pup. her youngest pup. he was so young when he first started, when juno first gave him to her? he learned how to roughhouse with her packmates. he learned to fly with her! did she snap at juno? did she scream and curse and blame juno? did she howl mournfully?

#these are his moms!!! #not very good ones but his moms nonetheless!! #when he fought krios do you think he heard their voices in his head encouraging him #'victory or death jason' lupa says in head 'die like a roman or don't die at all.' jason picks up his sword again. #krios knock his sword out of his hand and jason bares his teeth. that's okay. he doesn't nned a weapon to fight #he wrestles krios to the floor and the titan's throat is bared and it would quick and simple to rip it out but he hesitates. #normal people dont do that. his head pounds. his lady's voice exhoes in his head 'go for the kill always my champion.' #jason leans down and clamps his teeth around krios' throat and rips it out. the titans gasps pathetically underneath him #it's not enough. he can already see the wound beginning to heal so he digs his fingers into the wound and starts pulling #the neck rips quickly once he gets started and he snaps the spine as he goes. finally with one last tug the head comes clean off. #he stands up from where he's kneeling over the body and picks up the head by its hair turning around to face the legion. #there is ichor staining his mouth golden. it drips onto his armor. he lifts the head up high. the legions stares at him in shock and awe. #they look terrified he notes absently. 'VICTORY FOR ROME!' he shouts and the campers explode into loud cheering. #sorry what the fuck was that #jason grace #juno pjo #lupa pjo #hoo #hera pjo

[whumpetywhump]

#w two worlds #kdrama #gunshot wound #collapse #bleeding #blood loss #internal bleeding #blood from the mouth #bloody face #passing out #unconscious #concern #bromance #comfort #hand holding #ambulance #oxygen mask #lee jong suk #lee tae hwan #whump #kwhump #asian whump

[daisies-on-a-cup]

thinking a lot this morning about how in their final becomings, will was hooked in the mouth like a fish and hannibal was shot like a stag...

#surreal full circle moment right there.... #like their biggest wounds represent the kind of hunter they were.. kind of... #just thinking about will getting stabbed in the cheek and then lifted off the ground with it like a fish gets hooked in the mouth #and pulled out of the water to inspect #and hannibal getting shot from far away in an area hard to miss and sure to inflict damage #because a close up confrontation would surely lean in his favor- antlers poised to maim and teeth to tear #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #francis dolarhyde

[invisiblemonstrosity]

litany of ordinary violences - torrin a. greathouse from wound from the mouth of a wound

#Id in alt text #torrin a. greathouse #wound from the mouth of a wound #litany of ordinary violences #oh what one can normalize when faced with it so frequently #injustices become annoyances #the unjustifiable becomes routine #which is a poem in and of itself #poems #poetry #lit #literature #poem #quotes #aesthetic #aes #typography #words #trans #transgender #artist #queer artist #torrin my love

[smokefalls]

I am told I must be kind / to this body of mine. / So, I am practicing / the smallest mercies.

torrin a. greathouse, “Ritual of Small Mercies” from Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

#torrin a. greathouse #Wound from the Mouth of a Wound #quote #poetry #queerlit #2022 reads #Sealey Challenge

[team7-headquarter]

TREMBLING. THE POWER SHE HOLDS, THE PRESENCE SHE HAS, SHE'S THE QUEEN.

#the thing about naruto classic is that it was super expressive #look at her eyes #look at her smile #the blood driping from her mouth #I love this panel because her breasts are not overly sexualized just part of the drawing even when she has a wound in her chest #THE BIG FOREHEAD #she looks like a lioness ready to jump to devour #Tsunade Senju #naruto #naruto classic

[romanticbroadcast]

Some girls are not made, but spring from the dirt

— torrin a. greathouse, “Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination Before a Diagnosis Can Be Determined” (from Wound from the Mouth of a Wound)

#quote #literature #words #poetry #torrin a greathouse #wound from the mouth of a wound

[bones-ivy-breath]

On Examination/Dereliction by Torrin A. Greathouse, from Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

#quote #typography #torrin a. greathouse #poetry #literature #aesthetic #dark academia #dead academia #original post #wound from the mouth of a wound #on examination/dereliction #disability #dark things #bodymind #disability art