In the Swahili language and culture, a woman is often identified by her children’s names.

The odds themselves do not bother me, but I do not like the way they shape-shift.

When mine expelled itself, I realized that bodily control is an illusion.

Her swollen breasts leaked colostrum through a printed green sheath dress that she had sewn herself.

Creation, reproduction, was supposed to be my inheritance, my potential; I, too, was once a daughter cell.

If a being hasn’t begun, then can it exist? If a being exists, then hasn’t it begun?

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers may sound suspicious, or superstitious, but, for intensive wound healing, they work miracles. There’s just one problem.

I’ve found that there is no return to a nondepressed self. There is only something new.

The opioid antagonist counteracts overdoses within minutes. But, for it to work, people have to show up for one another.

The “relative value units” of a clinical encounter

How exactly does this substance evade the unforgiving forces of decay? There's some dispute.

If I love the life that greets me at my eye level, I should love equally the workers who help make such life possible.

Although we are small now, we are still strong, a million tiny mountains in our own right.

The medium of surprise.

Dirt as disclosure.

In this human life, we make a game of ridding ourselves of time’s evidence.

Will the mark grow and grow, until the entire ceiling is black?