Like // the sea, I shatter easily when / touched by beauty
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“Guilt Shower” & “Bad Catholic”
manliness sinks into me like tea leaves / con cuidado tomo cada respiro
voice in air: afterthought
I / stare at the spider’s manifold legs / & little clawed mandible flickering / with evening’s shine, tittering / corners of death’s bite.
For the missing ceiling tiles in 5th period history
I am tired of talking about holes and whoever’s gonna fill them
Thunder Over a Nation
I hear / the camps devour people whole, / sweeping the last crumbs of life / under the rug of genocide.
All the Unyielding Things
I just want to be a mitigator.
I just want to be a little something
to take the edge off.
A Lit Match to Burn What Your Country Doesn’t Remember
i try to pluck my cô dì chú bác from / their endless dreams. their breaths, / smelled of newly-damned artilleries, /
their mouths, stained with tiết canh red-bright.
