Monica Sok, Third Place winner in the 2016 Narrative 30 Below Contest, is a Khmer poet from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She holds an international studies degree from American University and an MFA from New York University. Sok lives in Brooklyn.

Left Behind Looks for the Apsaras

by Monica Sok

Left Behind saw apsara crowns floating in milk,
the white churning underneath a poached sun.
She watched the red-and-white-checkered Krama Man
smash skulls sometimes. He couldn’t see her
—small inside a tree trunk above the courtyard.

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