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Ocean Vuong

Time Is a Mother

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  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life

    the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.

    & I was free.
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    these

    corpses I lay

    side by side on

    the page to tell you

    our present tense

    was not too late
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    reader I’ve

    plagiarized my life

    to give you the best

    of me & these words these

    insects anchovies

    bullets salvaged & exiled

    by art
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    reader who

    cannot read

    or write you wrote a son

    into the world with no

    words but a syllable so much

    like a bullet its heat fills you
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    how can I say the hole

    in your brother’s back is not

    a part of your brother but your brother

    aparted who is still somewhere

    running because I wrote it

    in the present tense
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    you said you named me

    after a body of water ’cause

    it’s the largest thing you knew

    after god
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    if reading is to live

    in two worlds at once why

    is he not here
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    I was born

    because you were starving but

    how can anything be

    found with only two hands
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    I made a killing

    in language & was surrounded

    by ghosts. I used my arsenal

    of defunct verbs & broke

    into a library of second chances,

    the ER. Where they bandaged

    my head, even as the black letters

    kept seeping through,

    like this.
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    No One Knows the Way to Heaven
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