torrin a. greathouse
Dec 16, 2020
2 minutes
Milkweed Editions
(Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry)
… Misplaced chromosome.
Missing rib. Screw balded as a
knuckle. First cell to
metastasize. Our language unable
to speak my gender
out of disease….
—from “When My Gender Is First Named Disorder”
HOW IT BEGAN: It was several things simultaneously: beginning hormone
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