Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone

And because I love this life

I know I shall love death as well.

The child cries out when

From the right breast the mother

Takes it away, in the very next moment

To find in the left one

Its consolation.

— Rabindranath Tagore, from Gitanjali

For George and Mariam Verghese

Scribere jussit amor

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