
Distance Moonlit sky brings no kisses to the lips, cheeks no embraces We stand apart like neighbor stars a gap between us our silhouettes licked thin like popsicles in the semi-darkness slowly vanishing under the curtain of night

Jackie Chou is a poet and Jeopardy fan who has work forthcoming in Alien Buddha Zine and Highland Park Poetry. She writes free verses, rhyming poems, and Japanese short form poetry.