"O mother, O minute hand, teach me / how to hold a man the way thirst holds water. Let every river envy / our mouths. Let every kiss hit the body like a season. Where apples thunder / the earth with red hooves. & I am your son."
"How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet."
"My mother said I could be anything / I wanted—but I chose to live."
"Which is to say: this is how / we danced: alone in sleeping bodies. Which is to say: this is how we loved: a knife on the tongue turning / into a tongue."
"From men, I learned to praise the thickness of walls. / From women, / I learned to praise."
"Even sweetness can scratch the throat, so stir the sugar well. —Grandma"
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有几篇很喜欢,记忆最深的是Telemachus
几个Vuong常用的意象:sweat death night wall light father collarbone tongue name petal cornfield 各种高级颜色和植物。读这本前最好是能读一下他另一本OEWBG的小说,因为诗集里的人物主要还是那些人,这样有比较好的对应关系。