Tree of Knowledge Quotes

“Between the leaves, a sharp

angled light. The tree had a knife against its throat,
a fifth object. All its leaves stopped moving at

once. I realized the stars made the leaves move, not
the wind, a sixth object. Why does so much knowledge

come at the end of something? I have so many last questions for the tree. Is there more than one afterlife?

Can beauty be cut? What does he want? Does time move by shivering? Can death fall in love?”
― Victoria Chang, Tree of Knowledge: Poems