Where medical and self-help meet I'm reading
A book about how to keep your memory
Sharp. One thing to do is complete
Small tasks quickly so they don’t take up space.
Another thing to do is listen to people when they speak
Then ask questions that paraphrase what they’ve just said.
So you think your landlord may raise the rent? So you found
A vet for your dogs that’s cheap, but it’s more
Like a farm? So you’re headed to Toronto? In my head, I practice
Asking questions in response to imagined things
People might say. Then I practice doing it incorrectly,
Too aggressively, like, So you’re? Telling me? You’re going to Toronto?


So let me get this straight. You? Found a cheap vet?
But it's more like a farm? So you? Don’t remember me?

is the author of the collection of poems I Was Working, published by Princeton University Press in 2024. Her poems have been published in Social Text, Mahkzin, The New Republic, BOMB, and elsewhere. She received a 2023-2024 Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Greece, has taught poetry and interdisciplinary courses for the School for Poetic Computation, Poetry Society of America, and other schools. As a former editor for the NYC-based publishing collaborative Futurepoem Books, she founded their digital space futurefeed.