inkless in seattle

A witch has possessed me in her twisted hold.

As we run through the trees the dial reads five hundred meters from the marker when my foot snags on an exposed root and I’m sent crashing into a bed of mud and bark.

This poem was written by Xin Qiji (辛弃疾 xīnqìjí), a reknowned poet of China’s Southern Song dynasty.

This is a poem by Li Bai dedicated to Wang Lun (汪伦, wānglún), a good friend and fellow poet.

This poem was written by Du Fu (杜甫), a Tang dynasty poet considered one of the greatest Chinese poets in history, along with his contemporary and friend Li Bai.

This poem comes from a collection of poems called 唐多令 (táng duō lìng) by Liu Guo, who was active during the Southern Song dynasty.

today i read the stories that i wrote eight years ago. the cringey, juvenile, half-assed stories that i would never write today, older and wiser that i am. imagine my surprise when i discovered stories, not perfect and maybe not even good, but st…

I thought of the idea of this poem while on a recent trip to New Mexico.

i pluck out strands of hair and let them fall to the floor in haphazard piles of sinewed black, like discarded legs of spiders, meticulously torn apart by some unknown being with insidious intent today’s harvest is like all others. with cupped hands i push

The Hard Road to Shu (蜀道难) is a poem by the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, describing the treacherous passage to Shu, which is located in modern day Sichuan province.