Entered Some Aliens

Siew Hii is a teacher and writer from Mobile, Alabama, who now lives in Orlando, Florida. Their parents hail from Sibu, Malaysia, and Kentucky, USA. Hii has also lived in Mississippi and North Carolina, where they completed their university studies.

• HOMIE , Declared the Alien to Themself Go on Then On Hardy Street, Utopia: The Glass the Heart Hungers Donuts That Are Not Surprises Deus Ex Machina: Wonder Woman My Family Tree Pines with Mispronunciation RESISTANCE RESISTANT The Color Yellow Porcelain Bowl of White and Blue as Vessel for My Envy Entered Some Aliens The Heart, Mangoes, Another Heart, Night not her body, not her promise Bad Book Review of the North Star New New New New New South The Limit Does Not Exist help—my brother is a fascist The Waterer My Soul as Roots and Branches Upon Learning the Ending Ships in the Desert Fragments of the New Covenant Stencil on the Skin Advertisement Placed on Stained Placard for New Cookie Writer Eleven Romances , Declared the Alien to Themself Tomorrow’s Sunlight in Convenient Form: Kitschy Exercises in Unnecessary Negation Why a Subway and Not a Railroad? Because the Railroad Was Once Considered a Technology Able to Obliterate Time and Space Moonlight Siphons the History of History, Including Whiteness at skimmed edge of another dirt road Twelve Questions Noir with the Ghost of Victor Sen Yung Fruit Agape On Being Born (in Mobile)(moh-BEEL) In My Dreams We Live in a Society Florida Is a Place on Earth On Being Born Again The Only Thing Actually Impossible Is Probably Catharsis ***Florida Is a Place on Earth*** Florida Is a Place on Earth^^^ Parasitic Expressions The Only Thing Actually Impossible Is Probably Catharsis Pt. II Honor Is Another Thing I Hope to Someday Bring My Family WORK SHOES AS DREAM, DREAM UNGENDER Acknowledgments

“Hii bends time and space, entering objects, ghosts, and trees (not to mention God’s DMs) to rewrite inherited expectations and name our human hungers.” - Rochelle Hurt“To read these poems is to have a zany, inventive, and heartrending conversation with a fellow galaxy roamer, and to know that in that conversation’s exquisite quirks lives the truest meaning of the word home.” - Sumita Chakraborty“Woke up mumbling poems from this extraordinary collection that subverts subjuncts. A dynamic revelation. These poems stretch the page, stretch structure, syntax, our collective imagination.” - Nabila Lovelace