Outside the door the cat makes a sound I do not recognize as his
It sounds like an American conversation, like a white woman who is annoyed
She is powerwalking very early away from her husband
He is locked into off-label sleep
All night his dreams have lied to him about the plot of Swan Lake
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Heather Christle
Heather Christle is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Heliopause. Her first work of nonfiction, The Crying Book, was published in 2019. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.