I am impatient for the sun to rise, for it to set, for the moon to put on its white mask, for the crow to start its daily lessons on love— how to slow it, how to hide in its switchbacks. Why can we love, then undo it?
Victoria Chang’s poetry books include OBIT (Copper Canyon, 2020), BarbieChang (Copper Canyon, 2017), and TheBoss (McSweeney’s, 2013). 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 is the program chair of Antioch’s low-residency MFA program.
