Isolation

Summer specializes in time, slows it down almost to dream (1) I remember the night, the moon-colored grass (2) dead air in the eyes (3) and elms holding back the wind (4) keeps standing in my dreams (5) You know I've started to think (6) Love lays hold of everything we know (7) to call us to the essence of each night (8) an appetite, threatening obsession (9) gray blanket, last night's mascara, loneliness-(10) ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 1. Grotz, Jennifer (“Late Summer”) 2. Mason, David (“Mending Time”) 3. Makue, Thabile (“hush now baby”) 4. Otavalo, Pablo (“Christian County, Illinois”) 5. Long, Rachel (“Portent”) 6. Lasky, Dorothea (“A Fierce and Violent Opening”) 7. Gilbert, Jack (“The Great Fires”) 8. Adeoba, Gbenga (“A Short Essay on Drowning”) 9. Su, Adrienne (“Savory Versus Sweet”) 10. Rocha, Liliana (“Domestic Violence”)