Sublime

and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice.

In his mind he was the protagonist of every story, the center of everyone’s appalling attention;

collectively, they discovered a use for time,

But the humans have her in their grip, and she’ll never get free again.

then at intervals after, as the air rusts it brown.

It felt like Sylvie’s attention had revealed him to himself.

I was greatly affected by Saul Bellow’s novel Humboldt’s Gift,

Nobody’s perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.

She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.