It is winter but the poets are still coming. I once lived in a town where there were no poets or children. The trees were made of salt. When the wind shook, nothing happened but daylight. There were no hands since there was nothing to take.
Victoria Chang’s poetry books include With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024), The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon, 2022), and OBIT (Copper Canyon, 2020). Her children’s books include Is Mommy? (Beach Lane Books, 2015), illustrated by Marla Frazee; and Love, Love (Sterling, 2020), a middle-grade novel. She serves as the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech.
