It Was Your Birthday Again
Poetry • Jennifer Chang
When I was a child,
we lay in the grass and the clouds
made sense to me. That’s who I’ll be,
I said to my friend. Later,
she’d suffer from sorrow,
a disease of mountain air, though
she loved the corner she hid in.
We never swam in the sea
is the way I now distinguish
the [...]
we lay in the grass and the clouds
made sense to me. That’s who I’ll be,
I said to my friend. Later,
she’d suffer from sorrow,
a disease of mountain air, though
she loved the corner she hid in.
We never swam in the sea
is the way I now distinguish
the [...]
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ISSUE
24
Spring 2016
Author
Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity (Georgia). She lives in Washington, D.C.
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