This selection, chosen by guest editor Sarah Clark, is from I could die today and live again by Summer Farah (Game Over Books 2023).
Moon Chasers Ekphrastic
A clouded night. But still, your light persists. A girl runs and runs until her legs no longer suffice. A family shuffles into the car, eyes towards you. Up, they drive. The air here is so unfamiliar that they have almost forgotten wind. Its call, in tandem with moon, revives. It has been so long since we felt alive. Tonight, you are brighter; tonight, you are closer, closer, closer. You have an ancient name, one recalled only on extraordinary evenings, a name that reminds us we too are guilty of theft. Up, up, towards the cloudless peak. People crowd the streets to try to capture your form, beg for a closeness that cannot come. This distance aches, and yet. It is the middle of summer. There are no deer left to lend their names. Absences, absences; wolves howl in their place, domesticated kin join too. Wildness, they have forgotten. Will a symphony calm your light? Will a symphony stop us from trying? If only, if only; to catch up with the moon is to let it take your breath. To catch up with the moon is to start all over again.
Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. Her chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024) explores a childhood corrupted by empire, inspired by The Legend of Zelda. Summer is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle. Her debut full-length collection, The Hungering Years, is forthcoming from Host Publications in 2026. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.
Sarah Clark is a mad crip genderfuck two-spirit enrolled Nanticoke editor, writer, and cultural consultant. They are Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor at ANMLY, Editor-in-Chief at ALOCASIA: a journal of queer plant-based writing, and Editor-in-Chief at beestung. They are an editor on the Bettering American Poetry series, and a current Board member and Assistant Editor at Sundress Publications. They have edited folios for publications including the GLITTERBRAIN folio and a folio on Indigenous & Decolonial Futures & Futurisms at ANMLY. Sarah freelances, and has worked with a number of literary and arts publications and organizations, including the Best of the Net anthology, contemptorary, Curious Specimens, #PoetsResist at Glass Poetry, Apogee Journal, Blackbird, the Paris Review, and elsewhere.
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