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Frozen Coconut Cream Pie
Frozen Coconut Cream Pie
In my freezer, I kept a frozen coconut cream pie. It was meant to be a special treat to have after horrible day. However, the pie required hours to thaw and I never could bear the process. This poem explores more than what could ever be contained within just one pie tin. The sweetest things are often unsaid.
(2024) Long Listed for The Passionfruit Review Poetry Prize
Portrait of Barcelona's Beauty
Portrait of Barcelona's Beauty
Arguably, this is one of the cheeriest pieces I've written in quite some time. It's an ode, a celebration, of a foreign place that welcomed me as if it were my home. Barcelona is a place I one day hope to return.
(2024) Published in The Heartland Review & Honorable Mention for Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
Carcass
Carcass
I've always feared losing my memories. That they'll evaporate, get carried off by the wind, or line my mind like bodies heaped up after some gruesome battle. In this poem, I view this issue through a real carcass I found on my own floors.
(2024) Published in Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities issue #6
He Won't Leave
He Won't Leave
The unique form of a poem can allow it to transcend limitations of symbols within prose in fascinating ways. In this poem, I utilize a poem shaped like a humanoid figure wielding a knife to delve into the poet's experience grappling with demons, either real or imagined.
(2023) 3rd Place Recipient of Amy M. Young Award in Poetry
Into the Dark
Into the Dark
In this hauntingly rhythmic poem, a horrifying encounter with an unknown threat forces the poet to flee for their life. Yet, the poem comments on how once you've gone "into the dark" escaping said darkness can result in what feels like a cyclical state of purgatory.
(2023) Published in The GroundUp and Wingless Dreamer
Game Nights
Game Nights
When the world is chaotic, escapism becomes a crucial tool to centering oneself. In this poem, I explore how having weekly game nights with my friends made college life and a global pandemic bearable while providing me a new outlook on life.
(2022) Published in Wingless Dreamer's Midsummer's Eve Poetry Anthology
Fossils of Us
Fossils of Us
In this poem, I combine my hobby of fossil collecting with a message about how men mask their insecurities through hobbies. These stanzas seek to raise awareness and encourage self-love within the reader, because self-hatred is already rampant among all humans who fail to appreciate the beauty within their bones.
(2022) Finalist for Amy M. Young Award in Poetry
Living an Illusion
Living an Illusion
In this poem, I illustrate the dangers of assimilation culture through depicting a student's struggle with distinguishing themself from a manufactured identity that they've created in order to be accepted by their peers.
(2021-2022) Utilized in an award-winning poetry set
Lovesick
Lovesick
In this spoken word poem, I depict the thralls of young love and how it can blind an individual to the toxicity of their crush/lover. In other words, I encapsulate what it is like to be lovesick.
(2019-2020) Utilized in an award-winning poetry set
Not in My Skin
Not in My Skin
When we do not know what's happened, it can be incredibly painful. In this haunting poem, I capture the traumatic experience of being the victim of a crime one can't remember and being gaslit by someone whom the poet thought they could trust.
(2019-2020) Utilized in an award-winning poetry set
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