Toy Boat by Ocean Vuong | Poetry Magazine
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Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY). In his poems, he often explores transformation, desire, and violent loss. In a 2013 interview with Edward J. Rathke, Vuong discussed the relationship between...
Share 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 Source: Poetry (April 2016)
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