This summer, July 17-19, I’m offering a mini-session of our popular Write Together sessions, in which we gather on Zoom for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening and write quietly together from a guided prompt. Cost: $100. Please click here for all the details. I’d love to see you in the Zoom room.

At some point in their early teens, my daughters and I began playing a game I thought of as the Sure game, in which the answer to every question was Sure. Can we go on a road trip this summer? Sure. Can we have ice cream every day? Sure. Can we drive a car that flies? Sure. Can I fly the car? Sure. Can we float around the sky as long as we want? Sure.

The Sure game was the most soothing game in the world. It had a calming effect on all of us. Sure was the answer to everything, and nothing was hard and everything was easy.

i love you to the moon &
– by Chen Chen

not back, let’s not come back, let’s go by the speed of 
queer zest & stay up 
there & get ourselves a little 
moon cottage (so pretty), then start a moon garden 

with lots of moon veggies (so healthy), i mean 
i was already moonlighting 
as an online moonologist 
most weekends, so this is the immensely 

logical next step, are you 
packing your bags yet, don’t forget your 
sailor moon jean jacket, let’s wear 
our sailor moon jean jackets while twirling in that lighter, 

queerer moon gravity, let’s love each other 
(so good) on the moon, let’s love 
the moon        
on the moon

Click here for more information about Chen Chen. This poem was first published in Poem-a-Day in May, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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