to Muni Araña and Julius Renard
I will die in Paris, on a rainy day,
on some day I already remember.
I will die in Paris — and I don’t shy away—
perhaps on a Thursday, like today, in autumn.
The author wishes to gratefully acknowledge the National Endowment for the Arts, NPR/Hearing Voices, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Foundation, and of course, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, for their continued support.