First assessment
When the young doctor said, adjusting her thick glasses, “You might have ADHD. I am…
Poetry
Poems published in journals, literary magazines, and elsewhere.
Ghosting
Welcome to our cityof ghosts who steppedinto the ether, orbitingthe graves of our…
Memento mori
Ghosts remain even when there is no unfinished business between the departed and the living….
Someone told me, “You write from the heart, that’s why everything you write is special”
And I thought, thank godmy heart walks with bandaged calvesthat it knows footprints…
Ars poetica
After Matthew Olzmann So here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why I still…
An Instagram reel said, “Don’t swallow your grief whole”
Leave some space for dessert.Let your grief be your cake,Joy the icing.Integrate your…
Birthday poem
Countries away, imperial armies march on toward erasures: lands, babies, freedoms, humanity. All I’ve known is…
Where home resides
(Collaboration with Shikha S. Lamba) She holds a faded polaroidagainst a rubbled horizon….
After a nine-hour brownout, our village cheers & looks like a mouth
For everything hinges on lightafter a long darkness. I still remember the wide…
The last
These are the last slices of nian gaoI scrimped from last month’s Chinese New…
The altruistic tree
I am done with lovingsomeone else. The world does not need another felled daughter,…
Mama, we don’t talk anymore
After Maria Giesbrecht But if you must know: I now choose truth over…
Day 46 of the Gaza Genocide
After Rachel Kann’s What to Tell the Children A poet once said, We are…
When I think of leaving, I remember my daughter the night we lost the elections
I’m tired of this shithouse of a country:its coddling with thieves and tyrants,…
41 kilometers
News: The Halo Space delivers the ultimate flight experience, taking adventurous souls to…
In every sheepfold
A black sheep banishedBy meek lambs for breaking freeOf a wooden fenceWhile they…