Hi, I’m Michelle. I reside in Southern California, but you can find me curled up next to a good book anywhere.

Find poems and essays here. I hope you like them.

Thanks for stopping by. <3

michelle han-taylor

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Everybody Should Watch Movies
Everybody Should Watch Movies

Bad news again today.

Families torn apart.

Bombs, real bombs, dropped in countries I once didn’t know existed.

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We Used To Pray To God
We Used To Pray To God

We used to pray to god.
The slow, humbling work of
knees cramping, calves calving,
laying ourselves and all alliteration at the lord’s feet.
Sometimes we did not receive an answer.
Or we made them up with something called hope.

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What I’m Reading Right Now

As of September 7, 2026

Right now, I’m reading The White Book by Han Kang. This was a gift to me on my birthday a few days ago and my first official read of 31! Kang has quickly become an inspiration to me and I had to bump this up to the top of my TBR.