Editor’s note: This poem is best viewed on a desktop.
Kaitlan Bui is a writer and current Marshall Scholar at SOAS, University of London. She has previously written from Sài Gòn, Vietnam; Providence, Rhode Island; and Orange County, California, where she was born. In 2022, she taught at the Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu College of Education on a Fulbright scholarship. You can follow her journey on her blog, “the moonlight also leaks,” or via Twitter @kaitlanbui.