Yi-Fen Chou
Lament for the American Space Program on Halloween Night
The ten-million-years-ago stars, those glittering fool-makers,impassively contrast their frigid perpetuity with my heart’s transient thud-thud. At my feet, the leaves skittering across the driveway say: Thanatos! Thanatos!as if to shush me with the bug-holed currency from life’s latest bankruptcy. But let me tell you all aboutthis year’s spooky costume, an idea filched from an old …