“We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.”

“Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She was splintered wood and sea water. They said she reminded th...”

“Later that night she picked the polish off with her front teeth until the bed you shared for seven years seemed speckled with glitter and blood.”

“Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.”

“You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold her like a rotting boat and tell her that men will not love her if she is covered in continents, if her teeth are small colonies, if her st...”