Ocean Vuong

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yellow plastic
black sea
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Ocean Vuong Biography

Ocean Vuong (born October 14, 1988) is an American poet and essayist. He is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a 2016 Whiting Award for his poetry. Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 1988 and immigrated to the United States in 1990.)

The Best Poem Of Ocean Vuong

Toy Boat

For Tamir Rice

yellow plastic
black sea

eye-shaped shard
on a darkened map

no shores now
to arrive — or
depart
no wind but
this waiting which
moves you

as if  the seconds
could be entered
& never left

toy boat — oarless
each wave
a green lamp
outlasted

toy boat
toy leaf  dropped
from a toy tree
waiting

waiting
as if the sp-
arrows
thinning above you
are not
already pierced
by their own names

Ocean Vuong Comments

Jacob 17 January 2018

write more poems because i need more poem for school

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