Love poetry that doesn’t simplify. These poems sit with the gap between what was said and what was meant, the spaces between messages, the way love changes shape over time without disappearing. Not about falling — about staying, translating, and the things you still can’t explain.
Category: Love
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A Doggerel of Tainan Snacks
I’m from Taichung, came to Tainan to study, stayed six years for college and grad school.
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North Korea Travel Memoir
A holiday trip to North Korea, passing layers of checkpoints to reach Rason, heart pounding with uncertainty, no internet along the way.
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Taiwan Memories (Doggerel Version)
Twenty years have flown by, but Taiwan memories run deepest—from Taipei to Kinmen, through the days and nights of all 36 townships.
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Pristina, 11pm
Here, at 11pm, I am finally the right size.
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Neihu MRT, Last Train
You learn things about yourself on the last train home.
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The Loading Screen
My mind does this thing: it takes everything I was too busy to feel.
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Translation
You said: I’m fine. You meant: I haven’t been fine since that Tuesday.
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Coordinates
None of it was planned. All of it had to happen exactly this way.
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Signal Lost
We had all the words. We just ran out of reasons to send them.
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Terminal D
The gate number will change. It always does.