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

4.0

[4.5]

“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 carried the coldness like a diamond for years     holding it close      near as blood      until one day I woke and it was fully inside me     both of us ruined and unrecognizable     two coins on a train track     the train crushed into one”


This clicked with me right away and im profoundly obsessed.

Side note: stop stealing from my journal