Denise Grollmus's work has appeared in "The Best American Crime Writing 2006," Salon, Wax Poetics, Cleveland Scene, and other Village Voice Media papers. She is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Pennsylvania State University, where she is writing her memoir, "The Value of Ruins." Visit her on the web at www.denisegrollmus.com.
Some days I come out wrinkled like a jacket / exhumed from a suitcase. Some days / I’m as constant as the last soggy corn flake / at the bottom of a bowl of milk, / that piece that keeps giving...