We stand shoulder to shoulder Hair charcoal black, eyes the rich earth Flaming blood from one fire To any foreigner, plumage of same...

My grandmother is learning braille, her wrinkled fingers feel around for the dunes of the wooden page, I watch as she shows me the...

I am that golden leaf dangling in the breeze , only noticed for my destiny— to fall. another faint zephyr sweeps me up and I want to...

My mother planted a garden and soon sweet bees swarmed in she showered it with fresh dew rain and the soft scent of honeysuckles...

I look to the sky and wait a moment of silence in anticipation of its touch I open my mouth as it begins to descend from the heavens...

"Texas girl visits Idaho but never learned how to tell the difference between angels and local wildlife" Out back of my aunt and uncle’s...

across the street i see an old man and a nineteen-year-old girl. a newborn wails in her arms as a burnt cigarette lands at her feet....

I don’t think it’ll get near us. I heard there’s already some nearby— The chatter swells in the airport and up in the clouds, But comes...

tread carefully, my dear upon the crushed cans the cloying syrup submerges your stockinged feet the meticulous snapsnapsnap of splintered...

i wake up. i brush my stained teeth so the plaque disintegrates. i feed marley and boil only one egg while i drink fresh solitude from...

Some days I wish it was socially acceptable to run into the garden and scream into the sky. I wish to tear every shred of weight out of...

Drenched in a downpour of sweat I wake in my torn tent with a start; Hands trembling, bile in my throat, I grab for my M16 but find...

for George Floyd 7.5 billion people on Earth Unable to stop a 46-year-old earthquake From happening I guess death is nothing but a...

When I was 5, I didn’t know about the 97% But I knew what my neighbor did was wrong. When I was 8, I didn’t know about the 97% But I knew...

I stepped out from Woosung Apartment, and the Tancheon River undulates below the short bridge connecting Songpa and Kang-nam. Heize’s...

She wanted oak trees And a room big enough for two Grandchildren She said over the phone, static wrapping words in a crinkly package,...

I would dance with ghosts. To be tangled in their arms, feeling their far away breaths, To ask them whether their hearts still beat, When...

Navy sailors in black uniforms, heavy rifle slung against their shoulders probe the Ulleungdo Village. Rose of sharon looms along the...

I. I am a woman who for the most part is anything but There is nothing I love more than the color pink and how a dress looks on my body...

if Achilles could catch the tortoise, he would probably skin it alive for making him chase it for millennia. the taunt of a mottled tail...