Cracks in the Ceiling

It’s the mid ‘90s, before Myspace, Facebook, cell phones, Google. Carla lives in San Francisco, Ed in Chicago. For the past six months they have been lovers across every media available to them: dial-up internet (poets’ listserv and email), landlines with their exorbitant long-distance fees, the US mail, and in person (aka ‘mere life’). To…