I didn’t know the woman I
followed out the front door
onto the streets. Someone had
won a sports tournament.
Whatever came, came
quickly. She and I didn’t speak.
We ran side by side with all the
others towards a center. The
center had its own lungs. The
center had
Victoria Chang’s most recent book is OBIT, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. OBIT received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award in Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Book Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Chang’s other poetry books are Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle. She lives in Los Angeles.