"Lately, I have been writing about power—how it is stolen, how it’s manipulated, and what it means to fear its existence within you."

"This project is my prayer for Palestine and her people to be liberated, and for us, her wider communities, to become accomplices in her liberation."

"This is localism, I think, the way the sound of the plot traverses the valley with its many hands, the way these ruptures slow time to a treacly syrup."

"Each devotee orients towards the same physical and spiritual point: beautiful alone, resplendent together."

"What becomes of prayer then when the reasons why we pray bring attention to loss?"

"I never meant to create these videos. They emerged as I attempted to express myself through art during times of profound suffering."

"The censer holds nothing but moonlight, / prayers risen songs ago. Now, only laughter holds you."

"Agatha refused to fuck a magistrate, so he imprisoned her in a brothel."

"We all had something to pray for."

"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?"