April 6, 2025

By Eric Chang

A Broken Fix

Sometimes I hold 

my right arm

With my left hand

Holding myself together as I sleep

It’s a delicate ritual—

A single loosening of the grip

And I am grounded once more.

 

The law of the universe decrees.

That things fall apart

Far more easily

Than they are mended.

 

After all, it takes years

To weave a single thread

With a single person,

And only a second

To release it

Into the vastness of indifference.

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