All through January
You wished him dead.
And when, at last, he died,
You stayed beside his bed.
You waited for the sun
To parse the window frost,
For light to drift into the room
And consecrate the loss.
Hospice
Chad Abushanab
Chad Abushanab’s poetry collection, The Last Visit, won the Donald Justice Prize and was published by Autumn House Press in March 2019. His poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Believer, Ecotone, and the Best New Poets anthology. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Bemidji State University in Minnesota.