I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

Rumors are spread by jealous people

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.