In Lite In

AMY GORDON | In Lite In, 2013

60 x 72 inches | Acrylic on canvas

CHLOE HONUM

At the Garden Inn in Blytheville, Arkansas

It seems right that summer should lead to this, a low brick structure and a row of violet doors covered in dust. Above wet steamy grass, a butterfly lifts the sky on its powdery wings.

In my room, I check the mattress for bugs, pull the creases taut to examine flecks of tobacco and dirt. Lying down, head in sunlight, body in shadow, I dream of you again— it's becoming chronic—but wake thinking Blytheville, like a silky claw reaching in to remind me where I am. July in Blytheville, in a season of warm, pushy rain. I have never been so far away.