living with you feels like living
in a house red house, in the swedish countryside,

with dalmatian mushrooms
and wet orange chanterelles

but there’s a penny bun sun
more than three hours a day. mars’ moon 

phobos looks like a mother
of pearl oyster shell.

I don’t need a one-armed horse lifter
to tell me why 

the monk and the diver
don’t make it.

Stella Wong is the author of Spooks, winner of the Saturnalia Books Editors Prize, and American Zero, selected for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize by Danez Smith. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Wong’s poems have appeared in POETRY, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, the LA Review of Books, and more.