Waterline - Ocean Vuong

[Larry Robinson]

Waterline


If I should wake & the Ark

the Ark already

gone



If there was one shivering thing

at my side



If the snow in his hair

was all that was left



of the fire



If we ran through the orchard

with our mouths

wide open



& still too small

for amen



If I nationed myself

in the shadow

of a colossal wave



If only to hold on

by opening—

by kingdom come



give me this one

eighth day

let me enter

this nearly-gone yes



the way death enters

anything fully

without a trace


	- Ocean Vuong