love
Is like watching a bad romantic comedy
Except he is the protagonist
And you are the best friend
Who is faking a clap as he kisses the girl
The girl you just met a week ago
The one he's barely talked about
In any of his conversations
And you think
About those late nights
The sky a sparkling blanket
And the city an empty bedroom
And he begins to strip down his walls
#poetry
#queer #love #heartbreak
Unpalatable
like durian, pull apart my milky flesh
with your hands
as the stench fills the room.
Not all fruit is sweet
and easy to consume. I am exotic
but not in the way you’d like me to be.
I want to leave you dirty
with the memory of me
unable to wash my scent
off your skin.
#poetry
#love #america #foreignness
Daughter, of my sea glass
diaspora: You are already
Chinese. One of million
pieces of porcelain washing
upon distant shores. Your skin –
forged in the kiln with all the
yellow & brown mud
your ancestors saved
that the white man
has not yet burned.
#poetry #letter
#migration #motherland #diaspora #love
