Ashley Wagner

From the turmoiled age of thirteen, she has rebuilt herself, piece by piece, into something far less inconvenient. When her father told her she was too sensitive, she plucked the tear ducts from her face and replaced them with a rolodex. When her mother scolded her for being stubborn, she sawed her fists off at the wrists, crafted fingers out

Finish your glass of water.
The belt comes off, then
the bra. You will begin
to sweat, saliva will pool
on your tongue like
a baptism.