Exiting the Beinecke
For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too. —Virginia Woolf I had grown used to …
Traditional
Upon Seeing a Black Hole On a Bad Day
“don’t you know, I’m burning up inside!” says the man in the video and the video soon slips my mind …
If I Were To Own a Gun
Ginkgo leaves seem adequate; they nibble at your toes in the autumn, next to those stinky pellets I used to …
An Unorganized Collection of Sentiments On Loving Across an Ocean
I’m learning that the sun doesn’t rise. It doesn’t really care. We just happen to be in its light sometimes; …
Wick(ed)
It seemed a more definite way out. The clarity of disaster is more satisfying Than rambling goodness, and all that …
Inktober— 21 Short Poems
The following is a series of 21 short poems that I wrote for Inktober, writing according to the daily prompt …
Retrograde
When the faintly sighing autumn skies Lament the steady flight of time I tilt my head upwards in a sunken …
Skin Dance
Behind the left ear Swallowed in the hollow of your foot Now hiding on the inside of your wrist, your …
The Gift-Giver
There is a notebook that is my World and also just a notebook. The page Collapses when I turn …
III. Seeing Double (Superposition)
(*This is part of a series of poems I wrote about quantum physics concepts.) It is difficult to imagine …
II. Horoscopes (Bell’s Theorem)
(*This is part of a series of poems I wrote about quantum physics concepts.) Ancient men invented stories to …
I. Twins, Fraternal (Quantum Entanglement)
(*This is part of a series of poems I wrote about quantum physics concepts.) Another mundane day, you may …
Prelude: Behind the Curtain (Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle)
(*This is the first in a series of poems I am working on about quantum physics.) When we break …
Let Fall
I have fallen in love with softness (have I done the right thing?) With the pull of the evening’s low …
Nothing Has Ever Happened
She drives her Prius backwards. That way, she can live in the wrong half of her timeline Forever, In the …
Lottery
In Korea, they call overweight girls unscratched lottery tickets. Because who knows— They might turn out pretty. Apparently, flesh …
Yellow Girl Hymnal
I. Come, Lord, let us welcome you home, Let us be shy when you take off your shoes, Let us …
Question Mark
So you felt like kissing yourself in the bathroom mirror, all tongue and all slipperiness and chemicals, all cold-tasting and …
Urban Picnic
Good girls sometimes don’t feel like going home. They buy cheap microwaved rice balls and sit in the streets. They …
Alpha
Her dentures have escaped her mouth. Her fingers, Made of canines, Step deftly out of hell; Their devil-given powers do …
