For Octavio Paz

for octavio paz

(for octavio paz)

loneliness comes
as an acquired taste

after years of being
force-fed its cure

your bones
would have been
ninety-four today

just
ready
to celebrate dying

el laberinto de la soledad
in its cancerous entirety
.

Yi-Ching Lin

Posted over on her site Yi's Bits on "Healthy Doses"