Approaching Your

approaching your

(for e.e.)

approaching your
birthday as, “oh,
if you had lived,
you would have been
this-many-years-
old,” i realized
today, that some time
between your first day
and the last
time i calculated, you had
become one-hundred-and-
fourteen, conventionally
long dead, and that
it was and is
finally okay
to stop imagining
that i had somehow
lost you, without
a fair fight
.

Yi-Ching Lin

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