L--- is the thick, adrenaline-wrought catharsis of a summer rainstorm on the highway at night. It's the ridiculously advantaged team in a game of dodgeball; and the hail in March as you run from work to close your car's skylight; and the wave that rakes your hair with the teeth of the sand and surf; and the pebble on the downhill ***** that your bike trips over and you fly off, eyes wide and gracelessly flailing; and L--- is the way you lose yourself in the cosmic threads of their eyes; and the breath you forgot you were holding.