when i write
Part love poem, part fangirling Ocean Vuong, part tribute to writing.
Poetry
Poems published in journals, literary magazines, and elsewhere.
My cat is not Baron Humbert von Gikkingen
A poem inspired by the Studio Ghibli movie, The Cat Returns. It was first published in the pop culture mag,The Daily Drunk, on February 2023.
In my dreams Jiro Horikoshi did not make fighter planes
A poem inspired by the Studio Ghibli movie, The Wind Rises. It was first published in the pop culture mag, The Daily Drunk, on February 2023.
How a Scorpio loves (thoughts while you were sleeping)
The rain thrummed on the rusty red roofwhile my mind wandered to the…
Do not come to me unless you can
A poem on half-loves and half-tended gardens.
A kiln for wounds
A poem on the grief of losing someone with similar wounds and leaving the kiln open for for comfort.
Gandhi’s words
A poem on the Syrian chemical attack that occurred on August 2013