Something which simmers, and which threatens to boil over—but isn't there yet. Not quite.

• Written and poked at between high school (maybe?) and age 22.
• Published online by Apricity Press in issue 10, "The Daddy Issue."
• 30 June 2025.

Written with the titular song in mind, this is a prose poem; a piecemeal memory.

It was an Infiniti, technically. But the memory stutters, and "Toyota" makes for more compelling syllabics.

• Written at age 22.
• Published online by Major 7th Magazine, volume 20.
• 29 December 2024.

A clawing frustration on aromanticism.

When I first set out to write this piece, I didn't want the word "aromantic" to appear. But willful misinterpretation frustrated me, and I stooped to explaining myself.

• Written at age 21.
• Published online by Long River Review, a digital exclusive of volume 27.
• Winner of the 2023-24 Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prize in Poetry.
• Note: I was Fiction Editor of LRR 27. Contests were judged anonymously by outside authors, so my piece's selection was unrelated to my editorship.
• 26 April 2024.

A poem; a beseeching of the dark.

• Written and poked at between ages 18-21.
• Published in a physical zine by Unmagnolia Magazine, issue 002, with online PDF available.
• 31 October 2023.

A short poem on the closed mouth.

• Written at age 20.
• Published physically by Long River Review, volume 26.
• Available from the UConn Archives & Special Collections.
• 27 April 2023.