Soon Now
I got word last night that Pauletta Chanco, who just graduated from the CDL program (in which she was a vibrant presence, even with stage 4 breast cancer) has now entered into the final stage of her dying process.
So for today, I am posting one of Pauletta’s recent works-on-paper, titled Rebirth Pastel 3, and this poem by Jane Hirshfield:
Not One Moment of This a Subtraction
all day the daylight coming over the sill
like a wagon
drawn by invisible big-hooved horses working hard
soon now your breathing will climb inside it, go with it away
all your mountains and rivers
your cities and memories
doing their silent handsprings inside it
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May you come to the end of suffering, dear Pauletta.
May you be free.