Elizabeth Marilla is from Lone Tree, Iowa. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she studied poetry as an Iowa Arts Fellow. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Fjords, Oversound, The Saranac Review, West Branch, and Gulf Coast. Elizabeth lives on a river with her daughter LJ.

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HAIR THING

By ELIZABETH MARILLA

it’s a war thing.