Selected Poems

I write to understand our world a little better, to ask the unanswerable questions, and cultivate compassion. I'm always in search of what connects us beyond our differences. My poems track this journey. Here is a sampling....

2025

Black Warrior Review

refraction

Beloit Poetry Journal

what’s your name?

The Margins

I read your email last summer

last summer

RHINO

At a traffic light, I’m twenty years old

Tiny Wren Anthology: Earth Poems of Presence and Possibility

Summer Retreat

Sing Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma

my name is not Navajo

Navajo Girl/Indian Girl

2024

wildness

Burial

Whale Road Review

TheParsi Legend of Sweet Milk

Tinderbox

Video Selfie as Water

On a California Freeway, I think about language

2023

Catamaran

White Orchids

Rust & Moth

I wanted to slay the dragon for you

2022

Salt Hill Journal

I’ll have an American Breakfast, please hold the (w)

Terrain.org

Other~Land

2021

Yellow Arrow Journal

Open Spaces

Kind Writers Literary Magazine

Muddy Boots

The Poeming Pigeon: from Pandemic to Protest (No. 11)

my broken america

2020

Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Dawn’s Gift

Caesura

To Break Oneself Open