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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

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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong (born Vương Quốc Vinh, Vietnamese: [vɨəŋ˧ kuək˧˥ viɲ˧]; October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and novelist. Vuon…

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