Tag: contemporary long poem
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If I could erase one trend from history, A Poem on Unmaking History’s Currents: The Weight of Erasures
In the quiet hours before dawn, when my laptop’s blue light casts shadows across my apartment, I imagine myself as a cosmic editor. If I could erase one trend from history, it would be the colonial imagination—that insidious belief in ownership that swept across continents like a plague of paper maps and iron promises. I…
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Takeaway From The Hard Years Chapter of My Life: A Contemporary Poem of Resilience and Healing
The Takeaway From The Hard Years Chapter of My Life began as a quiet revelation: that suffering, when met with curiosity rather than fear, could become a teacher more honest than any book, more present than any person. I started keeping a list in my mind of what the Hard Years had given me—not the…
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A Place I Would Love To Live In This World: A Tanabata Meditation on Belonging
In the quiet hours before dawn, while the world still dreams of what it might become, I find myself standing beneath a sky heavy with unspoken promises. The Tanabata festival approaches—those celestial lovers Vega and Altair, separated by the Milky Way, allowed to meet once a year across a bridge of magpies. And like them,…
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If I Could Change the Ending of Any Book, Which One Would It Be?
In this original contemporary long poem, I reflect on the one book ending I would rewrite and what that choice reveals about regret, longing, and the power of literature.