Makeover montages and infomercials of the early 2000s taught me beauty is just a flat iron away— Fix unsightly frizzy hair by scorching...

For Frank Stanford Night of crisp hay, full moon, warm wind, hiking around the reservoir. We didn’t yet know what sacred meant, but I...

One month after the breakup, Julia decided to make an account on a dating app despite what happened with her boyfriend. Well,...

With your friends and I’m watching you through the doorway while you talk with her on the bed / Does my hair not shine like it did when...

Back when it was a treat to sleep in tents on the ground, we rafted down the Snake River in Wyoming. Loaded with eight tourists, the raft...

In my senior portraits I am wearing brown and green cigarette pants and a pea-colored spaghetti strap shirt. Most likely I looked like...

was my nickname. I’d fly from my crib as a toddler. As soon as I could stand, I’d rock for momentum and hurl myself forward - arms wide....

In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street. Long messages, loving ones in bright enough of a shade that the men to whom...

In your bedroom, you hold me close my chest shot-through from virus, cylinders of light cracking my ribs sternum woven shut, me, gasping...

When I was a four-year-old in Lincoln I catapulted over my tricycle handle bars and My right knee kissed sidewalk and came away with a...

We hid in one room, pouring white wine and hating our neighbors. I could hold a soldier’s stare like a bouquet, and held bouquets like...

Roe v. Wade and I were born two weeks apart in January 1973. We both came into the world in the middle of storms: mine was a blizzard and...