A poem by Noreen Ocampo, read by the author. Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. She is the author of the chapbooks There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi (Porkbelly Press, 2025) and Not Flowers (Variant Literature, 2022), and her work can also be found in Frontier Poetry, Baltimore Review, The Margins, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi.