What Cars Remain
The quiet sighof May evening. Outside, what cars remain turnslowly toward home. Alone indoors, we pray desperately to our gods. Surely the people are grass. Surely the people are grass.
Stephanie Niu
Stephanie Niu is a poet from Georgia and who currently lives in northern California. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in symbolic systems and an M.S. in computer science. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Southeast Review, Portland Review, Immigrant Report, Not Very Quiet, and elsewhere. Outside of verse, she produces "Following the Water," a podcast on intersecting movements in the natural and human world.
Abstinence
Through slit-like blinds,bright sycamore leaves. Inside,blankets in their usual heap. Slowly, we circle the actual thing. I cannot locate it in the body– that ravenous hope. After, the treeso green it could burstinto blossom – but won’t.