Home is a memory 2024
Published Article in the Baltimore Beat
INSIDE “WHAT THEY LEFT US,” AN EXHIBIT ON FAMILY, MIGRATION, AND THE COMPLEXITY OF MEMORY AT THE ALCHEMY OF ART.
The Wind 2024
Published on Baltimore Youth Film Arts Website
This prose poem turns the wind into a lonely, furious friend, scattering trash cans and shaking trees after thunderstorm’s departure. With humor and a hint of fear, it shows nature’s wild mood and the narrator’s wary wish to comfort it.
Sick Even That 2024
Published on Baltimore Youth Film Arts Website
This poem grieves the loss of love while repeating the refrain “but I know it’s good for me,” capturing the ache of heartbreak alongside the hope that pain can still hold some kind of healing.
I don't know what that means 2024
Published on Baltimore Youth Film Arts Website
A chain of small, vivid moments, each met with the same unanswered refrain “I don’t know what that means,” showing how life can be full of things we don’t fully understand.
Body 2024
Published on Baltimore Youth Film Arts Website
A brief, tender plea to a body that aches and changes, asking it to stay a faithful friend through every ending.
all that we can 2023
Published on Baltimore Youth Film Arts Website
This poem moves from the world’s biggest problems to the smallest details, showing how even tiny actions matter. It asks us to see, feel, and care—especially for water, the life that connects us all.
Water is life 2023
Published on Baltimore Youth Film Arts Website
This poem is a fierce and personal call to protect water, weaving together history, politics, environmental crises, and lived experience. From Baltimore’s boil notices to global contamination, it speaks to water’s essential presence in every body and every life. Urgent and unflinching, it reminds us that water is not just a resource—it is us, and without it, we cannot exist.
Blessings In Disguise film script & Series bible 2022
Published on Baltimore Youth Film Arts Website
A series about the lives of three strangers as they navigate their next steps following a near death experience. Set within state of Maryland, these strangers learn the laws of the universe, however magical, musical or mystical the lessons are. They must question and understand the purpose of pain, disorder and heartbreak in their life in order to overcome and pursue their dreams. Blessings in Disguise is a series about fear and opportunity.
cereal lover 2021
Published in Brown Sugar Literary Magazine's 1.5 Ordinary Happenings Issue
This is a sweet, circular love note shaped like a Cheerio, wishing for a partner who’s as kind and heart-healthy as Honey Nut Cheerios.
Trust 2021
Published in Brown Sugar Literary Magazine's 1.5 Ordinary Happenings Issue
This brief, sharp poem shows how trust can be broken—how what seems like a helping hand can turn into harm.
Then v. Now 2020
Published Poem in the Baltimore Beat
This poem, written during an April 25, 2020 Writers in Baltimore Schools write-in marking five years since Freddie Gray’s death and the Baltimore Uprising, reflects on the parallels between that moment and the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving between “then” and “now,” it draws sharp connections between protest and quarantine, injustice and illness, showing how oppression only changes its form.
last time we spoke 2020
Published on the Amherst Center Cultural District Website
This poem to a late friend wonders if the trees shared their secrets—about loss, injustice, and life—before the friend became one of them.