30 Days Hath September 2016 | Day 28 | Untitled by Fay Chiang
September 28, 2016
The months fly by
from last November
until September;
these past ten months
I’ve been admitted and discharged
from the hospital six times
The cancer metastasized
into both lungs
and then the brain:
radiation in February
to a mass by the right temple
neurosurgery to the top of the brain
in July and last Friday
the last radiation treatment
to the tumor
in the frontal lobe
A cancer survivor for twenty three years
diagnosed when my daughter
was only four years old,
I feel blessed having seen her grow up
feeling blessed to still be here
and to still be standing
Fay Chiang is a poet and visual who believes culture is a spiritual and psychological weapon used for the empowerment of people and communities.Working at Project Reach, she is also a member of Zero Capital and the Orchard Street Advocacy Wellness Center. Battling her tenth bout of breast cancer, she is working on her memoir.Seven Continents Nine Lives (Bowery Books) is her most recent collection of poetry. And she is the mother of the inimitable Xian.
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