A QUESTION OF TIME
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In our dreams starlings fly roundelays
above a city of ruins and tumble down down into invisible trees confused but alive Out of the dust blots at first what seems a starling what is a drone— ah here in these streets seven hundred years old the disappointments of modernity patrol Someone is shouting you never knew |
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Elisa Gonzalez is a writer of prose and poetry. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Harvard Review, Hyperallergic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Norman Mailer Foundation, Rolex Foundation, and the U.S. Fulbright program. She lives in New York City.
Jia Sung is an artist and educator, born in Minnesota, bred in Singapore, now based in Brooklyn, and received a BFA from RISD in 2015. She is currently a 2018-2019 Smack Mellon Studio Artist and Van Lier Fellow, and an art director at Guernica. Her paintings and artist books have been exhibited across North America, including the Knockdown Center, RISD Museum, Wave Hill, EFA Project Space, Lincoln Center, Yale University, and MOMA PS1, and in publications including Hyperallergic, Jacobin Magazine, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and The Guardian.