A review by sapphicswrld
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

reflective sad fast-paced

2.5

  I am less horrible than I could be     I’ve never set a house on fire     never thrown a firstborn off a bridge still my whole life I answered every cry for help with a pour     with a turning away      I’ve given this coldness many names      thinking if it had a name it would have a solution      thinking if I called a wolf a wolf I might dull its fangs

I did not understand most of it but there were a few gems that I loved. 

Most days I try hard to act human, to breathe
like a human and speak with the same flat language, but often
my kindness is clumsy—I stop a stranger to tie his shoe and
end up kissing his knees.