torrin a. greathouse
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Nocturne
            a Cleave Tanka
 
I miss the summer,
                                                            Air simmered to ash with heat.
bathroom tile—private winter.
                                                            The moon is a glory hole.
This stall, the whole sky—​
 
                                                            A brand-new mouth made
slick with drool & sweat. Panting
                                                            in the night. Where breath hums soft
against a zipper’s small teeth.
                                                            & the wind moans back.

​torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk & MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. Her work is published in POETRY, Ploughshares, New England Review, and The Kenyon Review. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation, Zoeglossia, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is the author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020).



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September 2021 Edition

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