On the Night Before

on the night before

on the night before
the night,
the phone lines
are tied
into intricate
Chinese knots, red and
double-layered,
with one single
tassel gathering
the days
onto which all
of our sorrow
hangs. folded back
onto one another, a
hundred days
catches
in the throat
like the first
.

Yi-Ching Lin

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