Poetry

Portfolio of Published Work

Below, find all of my most recently-published writing pieces. This is mostly a portfolio of my journalism, with the occasional nod to work from my other service categories.

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Valentines day hearts

Valentine’s Day

Your sweet burst of laughter made me bubbly and pink and I stirred in the wooden booth letting my cheek clank against my palm. I

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Foggy Trans-Labrador Highway TLH Quebec Canada

transfusion

one torturous pin pricks it sinks in the blood draws my face drains what a dizzying experiment! the face of this swindler looks with hungry

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Laborer melting metal with welding tool

melted shut

faces can be called mechanical half the time our expressions come on a conveyor belt your jaw is set and tight your mouth a thin

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Transparent LED filament light bulbs on black background

off you

my fringed dress fanned as I spun and looked like a lion’s mane especially from my aerial view but then also, it looked like your

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Crown of Thorns on White Paper Background

the crown i didn’t want

The red-lipped gab and shrill giggles of cat-eyed girls the ones who spearhead this supposed committee of social niceties  the ones wearing sequined crowns and

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Searching

too

you’re leading the search for your soul but i found it it’s somewhere in a city hunched over a desk in a dark, grimy loft

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NIGHTS

Night Person

He is full and glowing, but with a dark side— At his apex he makes me starry eyed and bright— And every night, after we’d part,

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City cyclists, people riding bicycles on cobblestone road

You, you, you

A song strums through my open window playing with strings of my hair as I sleep; its hands are like yours. Its notes are shards

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Follow the direction arrow

This Way

  I haven’t walked this way. The faces are white sky bright and the taste of burnt coffee sticks to the roof of my mouth

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Tuscan Village Landscape in the morning

Morning

It’s 4 AM and the morning I taste is menthol cigarettes and your chapsticked lips warm against mineThe morning I feel is the rain in

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UW Bothell: Swipe for Whales

In this blog post for University of Washington Bothell, I wrote about a new online game to track whales with citizen science.