“Like the poems in Michelle Ortega's Don't Ask Why, the eight prose poems in her new micro chapbook Tissue Memory pull a reader into their own body, asking questions that run from questions as incidental as "will there be traffic" to existential—"which way do I swim." Whether the top-heavy body of the seahorse knows the difference between the ocean and four glass walls, whether the shorts show too much skin, the poems confront the reality of the body and what it might mean to live in one. Reading this short collection is an embodied experience, and I'm torn, uncertain if it's a rich quiet I sense in their wake or if I'm left disquieted. That seems a good thing.” Will Willingham, author of Adjustments