Para Vadhahong

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Para Vadhahong is a writer who has been published in fifth wheel press, DVAN, Sine Theta, Honey Literary, and others. They are the winner of Meridians’ Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award (2024), Salt Hill Journal's Arthur Flowers Flash Fiction Prize (2022), and Palette Poetry’s Sappho Prize (2023). They are the Editor-in-Chief of On Prayer, a community anthology published by The Seventh Wave. You can find more of their work at paravadhahong.weebly.com.

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Notes on Sappho’s Midnight Fragment

Para Vadhahong  | 
Issue 75.1 Fall 2025

I learn to be alone (μόνα) when my room is caught in a web of winter, spinning words into indulgent machinery against loneliness.