"How is it that my memories exist in English from a time before I knew that language?"

"I near-remember and sometimes dream of standing in the morning shadow of this large looming thing, where even my hand in my mother’s feels cold."

"Long live the time beneath minerals, beneath runways and concrete and stainless steel docks."

"A tree’s wounds never heal, he reminds me, another fact from another day."

"A line is a crack asserting itself / The starred edges of a scar flare under my skin’s continuity"

"My recklessness can fit on one hand: the divine is reserved for the thumb."

"Consider on the horizon: / Where are the persons made up in the language?"

"In what ways have video games impacted or changed you? How have they helped you survive our present world and envision new ones?"

"A prayer can be a litany of desires; a call to action; an upholding of the self and the beloved; a life-giving elegy."

"What are the different gestures an ending can hold? What are its passages, its fugitivities?"

"What are your impossible queer dreams? What does kinship look like beyond the ties enshrined by the State?"

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Samar Al Summary shares a piece from 2021 to showcase her work.