what a breath means: stories and poems
what a breath means: stories and poems is my first chapbook, created during my time at the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House at the University of Maryland, College Park. This chapbook is a collection of short stories and poems I wrote between 2021 and 2023 that focuses on the uniquely human experiences where joy and pain can coexist.
To be a person in this world is to
love, to lose, to be thrown into
despair, and to find joy again. Pleasure and pain are folded into one another. Neither is good or bad — their coexistence is the truth.