The heat stills everything into smallness. Everyone is home or perhaps no one. Even the cicadas are too tired to speak. The golden dog pulls me down the smallest paths towards sleeping goats, past the brown-and-white heifer who blows, long and cool, and the dog trembles with giddiness. One drunk man stops, twice, to…
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