Old Silver Hair – I (from Kirsten Lunstrum)

Lily Hoang
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In the California king, Old Silver Hair turns her face into the swell of the pillow. It is too grand. In the queen, Old Silver Hair bucks her skin against the silk sheets. It is too subdued. In the twin, her wicked old feet twitch with disgruntled sleep. It is too petite. As such, when the Three Little Bears return, she is somnambulant roaming. She is gone, her belly full of oatmeal and splinters.

Lily Hoang is the author of four books, including Changing, recipient of a PEN Open Books Award. With Blake Butler, she edited 30 Under 30, and with Joshua Marie Wilkinson, she is editing the anthology The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on the Avant-Garde and Accessibility (Night Boat, forthcoming 2014). She is Associate Department Head at New Mexico State University, where she teaches in the MFA program and serves as Prose Editor for Puerto del Sol.