poetry ask game: pick a poem from my manuscript and i'll share my favorite line(s) + a fun fact about it !! (strikethroughs are ones that have been asked)
title page: i'll talk about the title + overall themes
author's note: i'll share some facts about the manuscript's background/context/etc I. SEED
last night, i talked to the trees
my mother learns the weather
synesthesia
multiple choice
diaspora
on the eve of my twentieth birthday
sydney
what they don’t tell you about re-entry
unmasking
weather patterns
biome
to the eight texts i’ve left unanswered, a response
when you ask if i’d rather go deaf or blind II. SOIL
a study in entropy
orange rinds
my roommate describes depression
to myself at fourteen
a week after the divorce, we roadtrip to california
please leave a message after the tone
my sister and i go for a walk at midnight
symbiosis
in response to seeing a third shooting on the news
warning signs
echoes of eternity
alternate reality
i am colorblind III. ROOT
to the solider
the reaping
cycles
yearbook
on the nature of transience
in case of evacuation, take only the essentials
christmas break
in psychology class we discuss different methods of abuse
tenebrae
relearning what it means to be alive
native tongue
i have a panic attack when we start to say goodbye
eliminating second person IV. YIELD
中国
tri-definitional
we meet in the orchard and your silence says i’m sorry
to my sister after her high school graduation
benediction
the brave one
tenebrae, pt. ii
when i ask you to explain your neurodivergence
the oracle receives a visitor
recovery
to the little girl who reemerges when someone raises their voice too loud
i have hurt you twice so mistranslation is my recompense
the ghosts i’ve befriended tell me it’s time V. HEIRLOOM
welcome home
to myself ten years from now
