Doing the Dishes
“Seb, before we can play The Sims, you have to do the dishes!” I dragged myself downstairs, reluctant to submerge my hands in the myriad...
A Love at War
Tumbling down a spiral filled with war, Bullets hitting my bones and Ringing in my ears, All because you two cannot stop Playing with...
Where Has the Poetry Gone?
My dear poet do you think that you are simply not up to par? You write poems by your bedside, ones that you are too anxious to show. But...
We Forget
what have i remembered? in my seventeen years of life many things, surely walking on dirt roads in a summer haze with the people i love...
I Do Not Yet Know What it Means to be a Woman
They say some girls never grow out of their awkward frames, walking around in bodies that still haven’t yet filled, that they thread...
Classic Ivory
Classic Ivory The options available to Jackie were limited. She couldn’t stuff it in her bra—she didn’t wear one yet—so she had to decide...
Not American Enough
Dear Asian Youth, For many of us, we were born in this country, born American citizens, while our parents worked day and night,...
Home
Dear Asian Youth, I dedicate this to the two places I call home. Home is a loud metro station squished between the man with the brown...
An Apology
Dear Asian Youth, This is an unaddressed apology For my mom, with everything I can give. I love you, and I’m sorry. I’m sorry my tongue...
Field of a Thousand Memories
Perhaps I will always remember what came before: that endless summer’s day when she wove her hair with jasmine, sweet, and searched for...
The Blood of my Family
Harsh, jagged lines mark calloused fingers, Like cement split from an earthquake, The skin of their hands is cracked open. Fresh blood...
Plastic Trophies
Dear Asian Youth, here are two words: oppression (uh-presh-uhn): the state of being heavily affected by unjust rules and systems and...