i like the idea of 1889. phoning you through their public booths. even though i’d have to travel to try and talk to you. hear your...

“I don’t remember” Is what You say about every terrible Word You’ve said to Me and every Terrible thing You’ve Done to me yet when you...

I was 13 when my birth name stopped feeling right The girl it was cut, sewn, and created for was now rough around the edges, burned in...

I thought it would be more difficult, sharing my soul with you, and yet I told you things I had never told anyone, not even God. How...

On the first day of kindergarten, I wore my Yankees jersey ‘cause Eomma said I could be an all-American boy. In the classroom, scathing...

And I saw a whale, Eggshell white shined with Petroleum. I wondered if the Blubber on hus bulging head Acted as a window, where he could...

Beauty is a Trick meant to Distract. A Sly Cat Slinking into an alley, Waiting for a Fool's attraction to be Lured. Social construct...

sometimes i eat away my worries yet i see it on my face. fingers knotted in my hair, butterfly kisses on my chin. it gropes me through my...

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...