2025//limited edition 100 copies//5×7, 22 pgs.

This manuscript was first published by MAYDAY as a digital microchapbook and won first place in the 2024 MAYDAY Prize in Poetry.

Jessica Q. Stark is the author of Buffalo Girl (BOA Editions, 2023), winner of a Florida Book Award and a finalist for the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, Savage Pageant (Birds, LLC, 2020), and five poetry chapbooks, including most recently The Flea, which won first place for the MAYDAY microchapbook prize in 2025. She is a Poetry Editor at AGNI and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Florida. She co-organizes the Dreamboat Reading Series in Jacksonville, Florida.