Poetry

Some of my poems are written using the JavaScript-based creative coding tool p5.js "I wanted to use markov" is created using Markov chains, which rearrange and stitch together text from different sources based on probability. "Fly on the Wall" was written using a poem generator I created, which randomly selects words from arrays/lists of nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and adverbs.

Static Poems

An Unsettling Image

A sci-fi poem about a telepath haunted by disturbing memories.

"Are you ready?"

"Yes."

I focused on her eyes.

Her green irises turned as brown as mine.

I didn’t know exactly where I wanted to take us.

Not too far behind,

not too far forward,

we wandered.

I dragged us along my latticed memories:

A splash of grape juice on a white dress,

A party, green and purple light on my skin,

A clementine-dusted hand.

I finally found a place for us to settle,

When a flash of its claws broke through.

Again.

Dripping with metallic—

I jerked myself away,

the green in her eyes returning.

Fly on the Wall

This poem is about police surveillance and the criminalization of queer sexuality.

we nightly cruising

the bathroom are

a spectacle, sacred and unseen.

they secretly lust for freedom, hot

though annoying, a voyeuristic kind of biomimicry.

my wings were not meant to

seduce.

living quickly feeds the drone.

Interactive Poems

I wanted to use markov because it favors certain phrases in this really frustrating way that reminds me of myself