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Into the Breach Lyrics by Ocean Vuong

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

2016

The only motive that there ever was was to...keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them.
Jeffrey Dahmer
I pull into the field & cut the engine.
It's simple: I just don't know
how to love a man
gently. Tenderness
a thing to be beaten
into. Fireflies strung
through sapphired air.
You're so quiet you're almost
tomorrow.
The body was made soft
to keep us
from loneliness.
You said that
as if the car were filling
with river water.
Don't worry.
There's no water.
Only your eyes
closing.
My tongue
in the crux of your chest.
Little black hairs
like the legs
of vanished insects.
I never wanted the flesh.
How it never fails
to fail
so accurately.
But what if I broke through
the skin's thin page
anyway
& found the heart
not the size of a fist
but your mouth opening
to the width
of Jerusalem. What then?
To love another
man--is to leave
no one behind
to forgive me.
I want to leave
no one behind.
To keep
& be kept.
The way a field turns
its secrets
into peonies.
The way light
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it.
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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong

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"Into the Breach" appears on "Night Sky with Exit Wounds" in 2016.

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