In 'Because I Can't Touch the Sun', Shanaya Stephens writes into the tender space between yearning and surrender. These poems move through weakness, desire, faith, and loss, circling always around the unreachable light of the Sun ? both a wound and a source of wonder.

With imagery that drifts from the intimacy of fireflies and worn coats to the vastness of stars and gods, Stephens holds the fragile contradictions of being human: to love even when it burns, to hope even when it fails, to shine even when it is fleeting.

This collection is not about touching the untouchable, but about living in the glow it leaves behind.