Vivian Delchamps
10 Days
covid, day 20
Dear my heart,
still yearning for well-being.
What foolish hand
designed human sinuses?
My heart wants me and you and all of us
to be well.
Enough.
Hard to not be sorry for myself,
my selfish, aching bones.
end of covid, day 30
Of cats, and gardens,
and soup,
I can't speak
Without smiling. Not right
Now.
Bio
Dr. Vivian Delchamps is a professor of English at Dominican University of California. She is a disabled and chronically ill scholar, teacher, dancer, and writer. She received her B.A. in English with minors in French and Dance at Scripps College (2014). She received her M.A. (2017) and Ph.D. (2022) in English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Delchamps primarily researches and teaches the politics of diagnosis and entanglements of disability, gender, and race in American literature. She is also a poet who writes about embodiment and chronic illness. Her favorite symbol is the ampers&.