I Read About Laika for the First Time

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M. Cynthia Cheung

is the author of Common Disaster (Acre Books, 2025). Her poems can be found in AGNI, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, and swamp pink, among others, and her work has been supported by an Idyllwild Arts Writers Week fellowship. She is a practicing physician in internal medicine. Find out more at mcynthiacheung.com

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