Throughout my life, my relationship with my hair has
involved a certain amount of magical thinking.
Take, for example, the time in middle school when I
unleashed a full can of my grandmother’s Paul Mitchell mousse (the one that
smells like rancid coconut) on my stick-straight hair in hopes that I’d
suddenly have a head full of curls. What I had was a crunchy, tentacled slab of
dirty blonde mess and a nine-foot radius of odor that just about knocked my
classmates over in the halls.
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What grew out, at the end of the summer, was a perfectly
nice strawberry blonde bob. Who knew that had been lurking under all that box
color and product all that time? Sure, my hair is still straight and still
thin, but you know, I’m starting to like it.
Kelly Davio is the Co-Publisher and Poetry Editor for Tahoma Literary Review, and former Managing Editor for The Los Angeles Review. She writes the column “The Waiting Room” for The Butter,and also regularly contributes to Women’s Review of Books. Her debut collection, Burn This House is available from Red Hen Press and from Amazon, Barnes And Noble, Powell’s, or your local book retailer. She also co-runs Gailey and Davio Writers’ Services.
Kelly Davio is the Co-Publisher and Poetry Editor for Tahoma Literary Review, and former Managing Editor for The Los Angeles Review. She writes the column “The Waiting Room” for The Butter,and also regularly contributes to Women’s Review of Books. Her debut collection, Burn This House is available from Red Hen Press and from Amazon, Barnes And Noble, Powell’s, or your local book retailer. She also co-runs Gailey and Davio Writers’ Services.