Anne Korkeakivi

11:45 p.m. in Oulu

“11:45 p.m. in Oulu is when the women begin to find the children dropping to sleep amidst the moss and meadowsweet, traces of soot around their mouths from the makkara they grilled on metal prongs over the firepit earlier. The men and older boys are in the gelid Oulu River, cooling off between bouts in the sauna, their bodies unseeable but the murmur of their voices drifting up from the water.”

11:45 p.m. in Oulu