Elisa Gonzalez Elisa Gonzalez is the author of Grand Tour (2023). She lives in Brooklyn.

Essay | Poetry

Elisa Gonzalez

Before, no rain fell because I needed none — good in any case, because, Homer writes, Gods are daunting when they appear as they are. A student emails that class is a struggle (in a sense): I need help, he says, understanding the Problems of Mass Incarnation. In the garden, sunflower heads hoist and swing. Rain-shadow jumps through the door. Yesterday my bicycle ran over a yellow snake. Don’t we...