IN Memory of S.H. Chang (R.I.P.)

No silence in ones's hearing the shore,
Hong Kong Portal.
Your favorite novelist was Gogol, and so too
one of mine.
I was too gravely ill to attend the Memorial Service.
So I read the Anglican Burial of the Dead.
She had Buddhist Burial Rites in HK.
I can either take nirvana or heaven here on earth,
but see Deep River intermingling with rain,
when the stars refuse to shine,
the sun, yawns, and lifts its miror over the mountains.

for J.W. Hong, S. Lee, W. J. Cho., K.Y. Huh, D.Kim //Stuyvestant High School, Bronx High School of Science, NYU, and U of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Chicago, Boston & Columbia Universities Alumni)