Leonardo Chung

Leonardo Chung is from Illinois and a finalist for the 2024 Witness Literary Awards. He also claimed second place in the 2023 William Faulkner Literary Competition. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Chautauqua Journal, Superstition Review, Full House Literary, Hyacinth Review, Sheepshead Review, Sweet Literary, and many others. He takes inspiration from distinguished poets such as Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Louise Glück.

“Starlight Stitches,” “A Collection,” and “A Moment Lost”

In the galaxies pooling in the waiting room
where black holes hum the prelude
to creation
we chart the shushed diagnosis
embossed in the orbit of
the body’s forgotten comets.

Issue 83, May 2024

Leonardo Chung

Leonardo Chung is from Illinois and a finalist for the 2024 Witness Literary Awards. He also claimed second place in the 2023 William Faulkner Literary Competition. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Chautauqua Journal, Superstition Review, Full House Literary, Hyacinth Review, Sheepshead Review, Sweet Literary, and many others. He takes inspiration from distinguished poets such as Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Louise Glück.

“Starlight Stitches,” “A Collection,” and “A Moment Lost”

In the galaxies pooling in the waiting room
where black holes hum the prelude
to creation
we chart the shushed diagnosis
embossed in the orbit of
the body’s forgotten comets.

Issue 83, May 2024

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