spoken word

Ghost Stories

*performed at Stanford Spoken Word Collective’s 2021 Fall Show On a cereal box shaking Sunday morning, can’t shake the feeling that …

Simcheong

Once I was an empress Once I was a bear eating garlic in the dark Once I was a cotton …

Retrograde

Performed at Stanford University, December 2019. Mercury is in retrograde this month. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean, …

The Astronomical Unit

Smart people once decided the ways we measure things here are just not relevant once you get far enough from …

The Lobster

Eyes meet as obliquely as fish brush water. Over the perfect lightness of expensive brunch, words are exchanged. Emotions are …

Octopus

*Link to performance: https://bit.ly/2KtTZZ1 (poem starts at 3:02)   The octopus is arguably the coolest organism. And when I say arguably, I …

Youth Anthem

This is an ode to everyone neither here nor there. This is an ode to indecisiveness, To every high schooler …

Slam Poem- Jungle Flower

The world thinks I’m a flower. This may sound like a compliment, but I don’t take it as one. For …