PACIFIC HOMING
“老家 are the characters: old and home. Which is better translated as one’s ‘ancestral home.’ The 老家 is the place and community where your lineage can be traced.”
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ReadThe Invisible Fabric of our Connectedness
“LA was where I came to understand myself, and where I came to learn from decades of organizing and Asian diaspora history in North America.” -
Read“I’m going to burp, Bonnie!” & other poems
“Our resistance—as dense, multiple, and multiplying as forests and old growth—must outsize these legacies.” -
ReadWhere the body don’t break, still blacks & blues
“The body is a lush field of shame plants. Touch the body and it folds. Touch the body and it turns its back.” -
ReadUPDATED LOYALTY OATH
“I commit to never speaking of this Loyalty Oath and its existence to anyone.” -
ReadPassing: A Softball Tale
“By eighth grade, I was numb. Baba’s growing-up stories described a country that only existed in the minds of those who had left.” -
ReadSnakes and Ladders
“Silence stays until next November when he coils and uncoils his fingers around the chain of survival, flirting with his own demise.” -
ReadSeven Vignettes for the Apocalypse
“Perhaps, alongside these vibrations of being, we can rest, mourn, be anxious and tired, cringe, dance, rot, fuck, crumble, ferment, fight.” -
ReadCreation Myth
“The resulting form was a beautiful, expansive galaxy I’ve been calling a chaos.” -
ReadAmerican Menu
“Inspired by the feeling of learning the name of a fish you will eat at dinner, while sitting in front of its tank.” -
ReadLove Letter to M
It’s two in the morning, and I remember what my grandmother warned me about again and again: “It’s the hour of ‘ushimitsu doki.’” -
ReadWhy Are We Spiraling Around the Campfire?
The snake bites its tail in a desperate attempt to live, does so, and dies. / But it lives again and again, the story told over and over. -
Readfiebre de kilig
“to our descendants, this relic is for you too. to our qt ancestors, thank you for seeding me in these fertile ruins.” -
ReadFor the Moment
“How is it that my memories exist in English from a time before I knew that language?” -
ReadQuestions On When We’re Asked to See A Person & other poems
“Consider on the horizon: / Where are the persons made up in the language?”