Chiwan Choi is the author of The Flood (Tía Chucha Press) and Abductions (Writ Large Press). His current project is Ghostmaker, a book he is writing, presenting, and destroying during the course of 2015. Chiwan is also a founding partner at Writ Large Press, a DTLA based indie publisher.

so silence


I am trying to tell him

that I am terrified.

 

But he is my father.

These are things I am not supposed to speak of:

                                                                                    Love. Fear. Touch.

 

And that I don’t know how to let go of something

that I never got a chance to hold.