Poetry, chapbook, 52 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Romy Rhoads Ewing’s debut chapbook, please stay, is a collection of sixteen poems. Challenged by one of her best friends to write 365 poems in 365 days, please stay is a compendium of the highlights of that project in its very infancy. Despite its creation solely during one spring in 2023, the work is divided into four chapters: spring, summer, autumn, and winter, with four poems representing each season. please stay could not exist without Ewing’s own upbringing in Sacramento: the poems featured were written in heat waves, on manzanita-laden trails, in the dirt-sweet waters of the Lower American, in the best gay bars on K Street, in swallowing fog, in oaks with arms outstretched asking to be climbed, on the Blue Line all the way down to I-80, and in infinite bushes of camellias.