Julia Colavita, Dune, 2019. Acrylic, mesh, latex, and false lashes on canvas. 40 × 40 cm. Image courtesy of the artist, Julia Colavita.

Julia Colavita, Dune, 2019. Acrylic, mesh, latex, and false lashes on canvas. 40 × 40 cm. Image courtesy of the artist, Julia Colavita.

 

Late Suburban Night, During
the Last Weeks of Summer

by Hunter Grey


 

Down the street a car
alarm and mockingbirds
answer [superimposed]
[vectoring] in heavy trees;
fog falls bedsheet over
sod-ground still [infra-
red] warm with sun; all
at once at the appointed time
when the great unseen
timer goes off every
house’s sprinklers turn on
and the air goes [spectral white
noise] hissing wild; Mars blinks
red. The moon centered
in a 22 degree halo
makes a clock with no arms
telling time for what.

Published August 16th, 2020


Hunter Grey received his MFA at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he also served as poetry editor for Ecotone magazine. His work has previously appeared in The Sequoya Review, Paddle Shots: A River Pretty Anthology, and The Heart's Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec's Images Responding to Emily Dickinson.



Julia Colavita is a multi-media artist born in Philadelphia and currently based in Berlin. In 2005, after receiving her BA in Studio Art from Hartwick College, Colavita studied with art activist Checo Valdez on community mural projects in Mexico City and Chiapas. A year later, she was awarded the Maggie and Bob Allesee Fellowship with Artrain USA, a non-profit art organization that funds “museum-on-a-train” outreach programs. Colavita then received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2010, and has since exhibited widely in New York City and Berlin. Shown by Powerhouse Arena, BAM, Whitespace Gallery, Rockelmann & Partner, Duve Gallery, Funkhaus, and Schillerpalais, among others, Colavita has also exhibited in Miami, São Paulo, Paris, Beijing, and Sydney. In March, Colavita had a solo show, It's All Chemical, at Assembly Room in NYC.