Noelani Piters is a writer living in San Francisco. She was a 2024 Disquiet Literary Prize Poetry Finalist and a 2023 Moloka‘i Arts Center Artist in Residence. She has received support from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and Kearny Street Workshop. Her work has been published in Epiphany Magazine, swamp pink, Reed Magazine, and Pleiades, and she has contributed to The Rumpus and SOMA Magazine.

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POETRY

My/Mother’s Fears, My Beauties

By NOELANI PITERS

Who moves. Who leaves. Who returns.