The Good I Cannot Contain & other poems
“instead the man of my Man shall leave his and his and his flesh.”
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ReadAmerican Menu
“Inspired by the feeling of learning the name of a fish you will eat at dinner, while sitting in front of its tank.” -
ReadMAGIC DISCLAIMER & other poems
“These poems depend on audience participation. They cannot happen without you.” -
ReadWomen in the Sun
“Every wall caved in / during the war; / brick and tradition / bored through our homes.” -
ReadThe Chicken for Dinner
In this implantation there is thick blood / so red it sings to black, so viscous it could be shaped / in the hands like clay. -
Readan atlas for winter
how can I love like this, / eating the bones of the sun, / its corpse of light, its flammable horizons— -
ReadAPI requests for present dystopia
Weather lights a mouth as vines drink sun in windowed rooms, / but I lied before. -
ReadSpell to Be Said Against Anxiety
Until the fodder of the fraught mind becomes the burnable legs of a useless table, / fuel only for compassion. -
ReadGrowing Cilantro
And after / one hundred twenty days, we / pinched at her stems. -
Read“Revolution” and Other Poems
you’re burning what does it taste / like when god makes mistakes -
ReadLetter to My Future Archeologist
Don’t they warn you against the misfortune / of unveiling desiccated bones to your green / sky? -
ReadPostscript & other poems
“This is localism, I think, the way the sound of the plot traverses the valley with its many hands, the way these ruptures slow time to a treacly syrup.” -
ReadPchum Ben Nocturne & other poems
“The censer holds nothing but moonlight, / prayers risen songs ago. Now, only laughter holds you.” -
ReadBangkok, Thailand
“When I told Singapore / I wanted men, my name / discreetly on my chest, / no one gasped.” -
Readthe girl’s bathroom & other poems
“Welcome to the next forty years of womanhood, my aunts echoed. Every decade, an unveiled burden.”