"Terminal Burrow" is a book-length collection that explores the Vietnamese diasporic identity through themes of family, illness, and origin. The collection poses an overarching question about language, taking turn positioning it as belonging, ownership, colonialization, oppression, history, and personhood. The poems investigate idioms, grammar, and metaphors in both Vietnamese and English, mirroring the constant instability of the diasporic identity and how it can be fragmented by racism, sickness, and alienation. These poems play with the tension between cliches and truths, biography and fiction, language’s capabilities and failures, and try to bridge the distance between disparate continents, tongues, time zones, versions of self.