Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Author:Ocean Vuong [Vuong, Ocean]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Contemporary, War, Adult, Poetry
ISBN: 9781556595851
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


5. bones. But don’t laugh / when these walls collapse / & only sparks / not sparrows / fly out. / When they come / to sift through these cinders—& pluck my tongue, / this fisted rose, / charcoaled & choked / from your gone

6. mouth. / Each black petal / blasted / with what’s left / of our laughter. / Laughter ashed / to air / to honey to baby / darling, / look. Look how happy we are / to be no one / & still

7. American.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

I

Tell me it was for the hunger

& nothing less. For hunger is to give

the body what it knows



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