"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything describes something else."
-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972
 Shayla Lawson is the nonfiction editor of Indiana Review and author of A Speed Education in Human Being. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Winter Tangerine, MiPOesias, and inter|rupture, among others. She is the recipient of Sou'Wester's Robbins Poetry Award and teaches for Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.