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Een bosbrand teert weg
boven een meer. Zie je hoe
het water het vuur vasthoudt
maar niet kan doven?
We willen per se liefde
maar snakken naar genade.

The Lovers

There is a wildfire
starving on top of a lake.
See how the water holds fire
but cannot end it?
We insist on love
when all we want is mercy.

Victoria Chang

(United States of America, 1970)

“I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.“
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Victoria Chang is an American writer, critic, editor and poet.

She writes poetry that is both personal and hard hitting in how candidly she describes what it means to be the second generation and growing up in western society. Chang explore...

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There is a wildfire
starving on top of a lake.
See how the water holds fire
but cannot end it?
We insist on love
when all we want is mercy.

From: The Trees Witness Everything

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'My Mother’s Teeth'

Red Bird, 1964

Fiesta, 1985

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