From Spring 2022 Explore This Issue Ablution & Isotopes By Sarah Lao From the Spring 2022 Issue Sarah Lao is a Chinese American writer from Atlanta, Georgia, whose poetry can be found or is forthcoming in AGNI, Narrative, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She is currently studying at Harvard College. ← Now vs. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d; Assemble the Mockingbird; Disagreeable Aspects of Hyphenation; T. and I Compare the Dreamscape; & from Tonight, a Woman → Self-Portrait as the Virgin after Karaoke; Self-Portrait as the Virgin Cruising the Beach at Night; Epistle (Día de Muertos); & Gloria