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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is the author of the poetry collections Night Sky With Exit Wounds (2016) and the chapbooks No (2013) and Burnings (2010). In 2014, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He received a Whiting Award in 2016.

Daily Bread by Ocean Vuong

Cú Chi, Vietnam / / / Red is only black remembering. / Early dark & the baker wakes / to press what’s left of the year / into flour & water. Or rather, / he’s reshaping the curve of her pale calf / atmosphered by a landmine left over / from the war he can’t recall. A fistful / of hay &...