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Mercury


by Chanel Dubofsky


At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people  sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold enough at night to huddle under blankets inside our  tent, my fingers running up your spine like a zipper. When you held  the flashlight under your chin, your eyes huge and your lips puckered, I laughed until everything hurt, until I believed that it could all be healed.
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