POEMS
These poems are arranged in seven autobiographical sections, tracing an arc through family, migration, identity, love, loss, choice, and legacy. An additional section gathers poems that fall outside that personal narrative.
Select a section below to read the poems within it.
Family, childhood, inherited expectations, and rules given before you could choose your own
Immigration, poverty, assimilation, and the search for belonging in a new country
Survival, the body, identity, independence, work, art, solitude, and the self you built
The younger romantic voice: idealization, desire, heartbreak, fantasy, loneliness, recovery, and humor
Relationships breaking, damage becoming visible, and recognition finally becoming departure
Adult love after reckoning: safety, equality, independence, distance when necessary, and choosing rather than needing
Motherhood, memory, inheritance, what you refuse to repeat, what you deliberately pass forward, and what carries on beyond you
Poems that fall outside the autobiographical arc of the collection or those that just did not make the manuscript deadline.