a three part series i wrote inspired but some expired film photos i took at the zoo. featured in Chen Chen’s twitter poetry mag, the lickety split 🥹
Sep 20, 2024
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I’ve been revising this poem for years and it was finally picked up in Passengers!
Jul 25, 2024
I have posted a good amount about poetry before so I’ll just leave a recent favorite
“I was barely six years old when I saw the snake,
probably younger than the snake.
It was startled and moved in a flash
to the middle of the road as I trimmed the grass.
To this day I remember how it panicked,
and for the first time I understood the meaning of fate:
life began, life frightened me.
As my sickle knife slowly became rusted,
the snake shed it’s skin, a dry-out shell with the old markings on,
which scared me and sent me fleeing, temporarily losing my dignity.
Now, I already amass enough venom,
but am still afraid. If the snake comes
hissing at me with its long, forked tongue,
I still wouldn’t know what to do.”
Aug 6, 2024
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Apr 8, 2025
i made strawberry shortcakes and three kinds of iced teas (ginger peach green tea, lemon black tea, and ginger hibiscus rooibos), and my roommate made bruschetta! then we played Rummy and 9-card Golf for like four hours. i’m so sleepy and content :)
Jun 2, 2025
after five years of grad school and subsequent job search, i can finally say i have successfully changed careers 😭 i start my new job counseling kids at a community mental health clinic on Monday. yesterday was my last shift at the grocery store that was an escape from my horrible corporate job and a sustaining force throughout grad school. it’s so bittersweet to leave the sweetest coworkers i’ve ever had and the most fun i’ve had at work. it’s immeasurably healing to quit a job for only good reasons. my coworkers got me a cake, everyone wrote notes in a card, and the goodbyes throughout the day made my heart swell. i even got to tell the good news to my favorite instacarter 🥺 after i clocked out for the last time, my friends joined me for gelato at the cafe and we strolled the store for a final time, this time as simply a loyal customer.
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