Obit by Victoria Chang

Author:Victoria Chang
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2020-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Do you see the tree?

Its secrets grow as lemons.

Sometimes I pretend

I love my children more than

words—no one knows this but words.

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My children, children,

today my hands are dreaming

as they touch your hair.

Your hair turns into winter.

When I die, your hair will snow.

The Doctors—died on August 3, 2015, surrounded by all the doctors before them and their eyes that should have been red but weren’t. The Russian doctor knew death was near before anyone else, first said the word hospice, a word that looks like hospital and spice. Which is it? To yearn for someone’s quick death seems wrong. To go to the hospital cafeteria and hunch over a table of toast, pots of jam, butter glistening seems wrong. To want to extend someone’s life who is suffering seems wrong. Do we want the orchid or the swan swimming in the middle of the lake? We can touch the orchid and it doesn’t move. The orchid is our understanding of death. But the swan is death.

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