Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a writer from Piscataway, NJ. SLINGSHOT (Nightboat Books, 2019) won the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. He is a Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow with Poetry Foundation and the Social Media & Community Engagement Specialist at Sins Invalid. He is a spiritual herbalism apprentice at Sacred Vibes Apothecary in Brooklyn, NY. Find more of his work at www.cyreejarellejohnson.com. Photo by Petra Floyd, 2021.