Elizabeth Onusko is the author of Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor, which won the Bryant-Lisembee Book Prize and will be published by Red Paint Hill in 2016. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slice Magazine, Best New Poets 2015, The Journal, Southern Humanities Review, and The Awl, among other publications. Her website is elizabethonusko.com.The Possibility of Refusing All Else
A mob of unrepentant aesthetes armed with heaping wheelbarrows of chalk colors the sidewalk that meanders from city hall to the steel mill. Newspapers say it’s a shame when rain blots out the riot of tints, but the mob is thrilled to collaborate with the weather on a piece of performance...
