torrin a. greathouse

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