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HAIR THING

By ELIZABETH MARILLA | 23 JUL 2019

By Viviane Sassen — Courtesy of Stock Snap

Your senses are sharper
when you don’t cut
your hair. Wren says,

it’s an old thing.

sharper for what?
I ask. For war,
says Wren,

it’s a war thing.

Wren shrugs
when I wonder
what war?

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.