"When I told Singapore / I wanted men, my name / discreetly on my chest, / no one gasped."

"Welcome to the next forty years of womanhood, my aunts echoed. Every decade, an unveiled burden."

"My brutal love / is all, a quiet meadow of violet promise. I'm so scared / as I watch the world dare you to live."

"December, 2017; I tell a boy with low self-esteem that I love him 'unconditionally' and now I have to prove it."

"Do they have any idea / what is it to be a hero? Of / chattering bones and burning flesh?"

"The first sign of life is the ability to /64 65 6E 79. The second is /regret"

"Most bookworms have lived the image: bedtime, the encompassing covers, a flashlight sparking a world."

"In these video games, there were victories and meaningless losses. I had something I didn’t have to be good at."

"rendition of justice, unprovoked and unasked to be / sacrificial hero with less"

"I dream within the confines of my sixteen-inch screen, mouse-scrolling and clicking in my sleep."

"Aren’t we like this seedling? Constantly budding through a land that has been broken into pieces."

"but too you ran scissors / up and down the powerlines / so the calls never made sense  /until the static of ashes proved / my mother right"

"my flowers have obituaries with names that don't match them and goodbyes that are wrong."

"No hables con her sobre this subject / Porque part of me is scared to complicate / Our memories compartimo"

“I can’t separate my experience of being raised by gay people from my experience of being raised by people who watched a lot of their friends die young."