“Take and eat. This is my body, broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

My new book EUCHARIST, WOMB is a collection of poems and reflections on my adolescence. These poems are stories about bodies, eucharist, racialization, falling in love, love unrequited, the pornographied imagination, and new creation. These stories are about how bodies are disembodied over and over and over again. How they are displaced, commodified, and transfigured according to the image of fallen mortal craftiness and not the healing flesh of Israel's Messiah.

These poems are stories, my story. They imagine how God heals our stories through union with the very body and blood of Jesus, the Holy One, who redeems, reorients, and restores. Collected over the past four years, these words are the sharing of my life with you.

I hope you join me on this journey. I hope these poems encourage you more than they've encouraged me throughout the years. I hope they help you reimagine the meaning of belonging in a world that seems to have forgotten the simple yet profound beauty of communion - of fellowship with one another in a fathomless intimacy that no one could ever explain.

Releasing in late January, EUCHARIST, WOMB is now available for pre-order on Bandcamp.

* Every purchase includes a digital, downloadable copy of the accompanying Yanan & Siegfried EP "After Supper"

** Only shipping in the United States

Includes unlimited streaming of After Supper via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.