Winner of the Academy of American Poets University & College Prize

I lived, then, / mostly by night. / But waiting for the day, / I slept through its light.

The sidewalks are so deathly / quiet, almost all you can hear

The weather was warmer / all of a sudden. / The air wet, / like one of those indoor reptile exhibits at the zoo

Indents of water make of the ceiling a canvas. / Slowly, inexorably, the damp settles.