from: "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
Tell me it was for the hunger
& nothing less. For hunger is to give
the body what it knows
it cannot keep. That this amber light
whittled down by another war
is all that pins my hand to your chest.
Vuong, Ocean. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Copper Canyon Press, 2016, pp. 42-46.
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