I tell my children
by Victoria Chang
published in her 2020 book, Obit (Copper Canyon Press)
I tell my children
that hope is like a blue skirt,
it can twirl and twirl,
that men like to open it,
take it apart, and wound it.
I tell my children
that sometimes I too can hope,
that sometimes nothing
moves but my love for someone,
and the light from the dead star.
