“Biological Woman”
The Rumpus (2024)
Crossing a street,
I conceive of constellations
as women
who lived once,
who reach us now,
who lit ways forth
so we make it home safe—
“Alias”
Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week (2024)
Anthologized in We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word (Haymarket Books, 2024)
I make no pledge
to do no harm. Above all, a diagnosis is billable.
Naming wheels an economy so certain I yearn
for recognition. I would rather not be referred
to at all.
“I Don’t Even Like Sports”
Anthologized in Emerge: The Anthology for the 2023 Lambda Literary Writers Retreat (2024)
When the pride comes
to mount us like doe,
play dead.
Cheat the trap.
Reverse the chase.
Poach the egg.
Chalk the airtime
left behind.
“Binge”
Muzzle Magazine (2017)
i’m so fish, i’m drowning on land. i’m so fish, people don’t even know which way i’m swimming.
“Ode to Enclaves”
The Blueshift Journal (2016)
Anthologized in Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (Seven Stories Press, 2019)
Before my people built this Little Saigon,
white flight to the suburbs sucked
this city’s economy down to its marrow.
“Behold! A Spectacle”
The Offing (2016)
all those historical revisionists got it wrong / stonewall was a parade / procession of contagious breath
“On Using the Trans Panic Defense”
The Offing (2016)
Anthologized in Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 (2017)
