poet and author of The Light in the Cave
Shaking glass, counting
down, clever words, cracked
this way. We breathe in
fragments, choking sounds:
Follow me, around the bend-
Find that
corner, planes must pass-
Steady eyes, over here, watch and see-
this new trick. It’s gone
you and I
together
*depreciated*
like a penny,
tossed in space –
into a void,
watch it now,
spinning down,
onto the ground,
beside my feet,
that walk on by,
too spent to care,
too tired to bend.
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I relate to this so much as an armywife who has moved and had to start over in multiple locations. Especially the line “she’s been finding parts of herself in different places..” Please take a moment to discover the writing of my friend YuMin Ye!
She has been fractured for a long time. Not belonging to any one group of people or any one place. Instead, she’s been finding parts of herself in different places, splitting herself up and hiding the pieces inside boxes only she knows about like Horcruxes. Sometimes it’s her heart, sometimes it’s her whole body. Sometimes fracturing her heart is like fracturing her whole body. There’s one foot in, another foot out. There’s one finger on one page while another finger is flipping to the next page. All this while her hand wants to close the book altogether.
She has been healing for a long time. Her Horcruxes keep trying to crawl out of their boxes like spiders after a volcano eruption. Sometimes she lets them make the connection, building a bridge to her past to help her move forward into the future. Sometimes healing is a lot of sitting in…
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Please also visit the following literary journals and anthologies where my work is published:
OneSentencePoems Paragraph Planet 50-Word Stories Red Wolf Journal and MasticadoresUSA.
My micropoetry has been published in the following print anthologies:
Poetryin13 Volume 3 Poetryin13 Volume 4: The Loss Sessions
FromOneLine Vol.2. from Kobayaashi Studios. You can get the anthology here or on the publisher’s site here.
FromOneLine IF I Were A House (all proceeds go to charity) click here
My short story, The Cave, made the ScreenCraft Quarterfinals in 2019
I received an Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest for my short story, The Reset. Read the complete list of winners here
My novella, The Light in the Cave, is now available on Kindle! It made the Amazon best sellers list in the category of Young Adult short reads on its first day released! 🥳
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I am proud to have my poem, “Finding Myself,” included in the Amazon best-selling anthology #HiddenInChildhood edited by Gabriela Marie Milton! In the video below, I am literally “finding myself” and my place in a swirl of words. Find it on Amazon!
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