paul aster stone-tsao (they/we) is a Taiwanese-American nonbinary trans*masculine poet and dancer/performer based in Brooklyn, NY. They find joy in experimenting with movement-sound-writing. They are very determined in generating a stuttering in the continuum of meaning toward a remaking of cognition, optics. We is a 2019 Kundiman Poetry Fellow whose work can be found in No, Dear Magazine, Sine Theta, Occulum, and Literary Hub as well as forthcoming elsewhere.