March 2, 2025

Sheila Dong

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Sheila Dong (they/them) is a writer and movement artist living in the desert. They are the author of two chapbooks, Swan as a Verb (dancing girl press, 2023) and Moon Crumbs (Bottlecap Press, 2019), as well as a micro-chap, The Clarissa Blueprints (Ghost City Press, 2023).

at this point in my life, everything is within

walking distance

which is to say, everything looms

large in my vision

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The world moves in unfathomable ways, and it’s so big. But often too, something small – a sensation, a trinket, the sound of a word – can expand to become everything

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