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Moongazing, ephemerally

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Kayleigh Sim
Kayleigh Sim is a Southeast Asian writer living in San Diego, California, and is currently an Executive Editor for *Polyphony Lit*. She loves prose poetry, contrapuntals, haibuns, and burning haibuns. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in *Interstellar Lit, Clandestine Lit, The Augment Review, Pollux Journal, The Bitchin’ Kitsch,* and elsewhere. She is the *Aster Lit* Starlit Award winner for Fall 2021, and you can read her winning pieces here: https://www.asterlit.org/fall2021/kayleigh-sim. Her debut chapbook, "moongazing, ephemerally" explores ancestry and heritage, youth and nostalgia, life and death, and sin and salvation in an ephemeral world. Visit her at https://kayleighsim.carrd.co/.
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from moongazing, ephemerally

aurelia aurita

i once gazed at 海月水母1, moon jellyfish, for a moment too long because i thought i saw myself trapped behind the aquarium glass. i watched you gaze curiously for a mere instant, through the glass tinted an ethereal milky-way purple-- a spectacle all along. and it’s like, remember 1991? moon jellyfish born in space were taken to earth, only to find that they couldn’t swim in earth’s gravity-- scientists decided they might never be able to live on this planet like their earth-born counterparts. remember the moon jellyfish, their dizziness in this stranger of a place? america you called them astro-jellies—beautiful, exotic, but not belonging to this world.

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1 moon jellyfish, or aurelia aurita