Flecks of melanin speckle her skin She hates them She hates how if they took a pen and linked them like a connect-a-dot they could draw a...

i. the book of life the musty scroll weighted with each stroke of each ancestor lost during the Taiping Rebellion no one remembers their...

Sitting in the hawker center and talking German in our own tongue: ‘mein’ and ‘mian’ were the strangest pair of twins. We would then fly...

I lose myself to the leaves, And I am forced to ask myself, Do I really want to go back? Do I really want to go back to you So you can...

Perched on the church pew, you are a discordance of color in a sea of black and white, but you are disguised. Notes of the intonating...

I have started to peel. My bone marrow liquefying with my words, my breasts. And my fetus has adopted me again, forgiven me Melted us...

my finger points to the description on the page. the island sun painting the skin an amber, gold-spun silk. flat nose. dark eyes with...

There was a crack between the cushion of the pew and its wooden back, so naturally the hand of a little boy emerged from that sacred...

gray clouds dangled from the dark Seoul sky and pinched the peaks of the Namsan mountain. Wind galloped across the city, thrusted by the...

The thing about this land is that it never gives you up, people whisper Whether you’re a five second stranger in the Shell station Or...

First, place a teaspoon of the filling inside the dumpling. Make sure the filling is firm and not crumbling. Gently fold the dough over...

lying together in the dark, soft bellies full of ignorant joy and your mother’s seaweed soup, the noodles we stole from cabinets crawled...

Great and deep carrier of whale bones I can nearly touch the surface foaming with unkempt rage Breaking mountains into ragged rays, black...

Class of 2021, good afternoon. I was tasked today with writing an uplifting speech. (Which is to say: I was told to pour twelve years...

If you’re looking for me, I’ll be Under the moonlight, Counting the stars through The gaps between my fingers, Where lie the promise of...

While talking of two years ago, we lie and watch the moon; your tired eyes are blinking quick, my mom wants me home soon. The concrete...

There's this smell I can't quite trace It's spreading, tentacles coming for my throat Proliferating Detonating the tickers within my...

Go across the stream where there are beetles that would wet your feet. Their voices surround and repeat in a ruthless rhythm. Till...

Jesus should know that no one has time for sincerity. Everyone loves me because I serve illusions of goodness Like fast food. Forgiveness...

It's gotten to that point again. I’ve destroyed myself just to build myself back up again. I let myself go, washing away into the Cold...