The land was unappeasable when you emerged from it. Granite giving way to granite, redwood subverting the crushes of azalea. You don’t know of hunger until it’s etched in your throat, sunlight and sweat spelling the old cities: Zerzura, Iram of the Pillars. Burnt bark making archways, and here, the market of gilded bars, the […]
Litong Nie
Litong Nie is an emerging writer from San Jose, CA, and an incoming freshman at Dartmouth College. His poetry has appeared in trampset, Bending Genres, the Neologism Poetry Journal, and The Eunoia Review, among others. He enjoys talking to geese on evening walks. You can read more of his work at https://linktr.ee/litongnie.