Jennifer S. Cheng is the author of HOUSE A (Omnidawn, 2016), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize, and INVOCATION: AN ESSAY (New Michigan Press, 2010), an image-text chapbook. Her lyric essays and poetry appear in Tin House, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Entropy, DIAGRAM, The Normal School, The Volta, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and scholarships from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Kundiman, Bread Loaf, Brown University, the University of Iowa, and San Francisco State University. Having grown up in Texas and Hong Kong, she currently lives in San Francisco, where she is a founding editor of Drop Leaf Press.

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HERE/YOU ARE

from MOON; ITERATIONS

By JENNIFER S. CHENG

In the story of the lady in the moon, there is only one ending: to live out her nights as a captive, over and over, as if some necessary penance, as if a sorrow to see a woman paper-thin against the lesser light.