#Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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— Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong, from 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'
[text ID: Brooklyn's too cold tonight
& all my friends are three years away.
My mother said I could be anything
I wanted — but I chose to live.]
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How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.
- Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
#Ocean Vuong#Night Sky with Exit Wounds#dark academia#quotes#spilled words#spilled thoughts#dark aesthetic#book quotes#words#words words words#dark acadamia aesthetic#text#dark acamedia#dark academia aesthetic#academia aesthetic#chaotic academia#classic academia#light academia aesthetic#soft academia#romantic academia#study motivation#studyspo#studyinspo#studying#study aesthetic#study notes#study space#studygram#study blog#light academia
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from the shelf: thanksgiving 2006, ocean vuong (from “night sky with exit wounds”)
#ocean vuong#lit#poetry#typography#american literature#contemporary poetry#quotes#reading#night sky with exit wounds#b: from the shelf#prose#on living#on life#survivor#on survival#fire and spite
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on humanity and love
Chen Chen Elegy / Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir / Sheila Heti Pure Colour / unknown (via @morepeachyogurt) / Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds / As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) dir. Jonas Mekas / Berlot Brecht Motto / Fleabag (2016-2019); Episode #2.3 dir. Harry Bradbeer / Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert / pinterest / Louise Glück Vita Nova
#on humanity#on love#on healing#web weave#web weaving#poetry compilation#poetry parallels#chen chen#elegy#dead poets society#peter weir#sheila heti#pure colour#ocean vuong#night sky with exit wounds#as i was moving ahead#jonas mekas#berlot brecht#motto#fleabag#harry bradbeer#everything everywhere all at once#eeaao#daniel kwan#danielscheinart#louise gluck#vita nova#as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief gimpses of beauty#words#poem
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— Ocean Vuong, from Night Sky with Exit Wounds
#night sky with exit wounds#ocean vuong#mine#literature#poetry#books#litblr#literature blog#literature excerpts#poetry excerpt#contemporary poetry
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when ocean vuong wrote "in the body where everything has a price, i was a begger" and "even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared" and "because this is mess i made, i made with love" and "i'm sorry i keep saying how are you? when i really mean are you happy?" and "i am not a writer but a faucet underwater" and
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Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong
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I am ready to be every animal
you must leave behind.
Ocean Vuong ֍ "Thanksgiving 2006." Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016)
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About Love from the last 5 books I read
Amanda Lovelace, the princess saves herself in this one // Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It // Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds // Phoenicia Rogerson, Herc // Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things
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Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
#someday I’ll love ocean vuong#<- name of the poem#ocean vuong#night sky with exit wounds#father#father issues#trauma#forgetting#web weaving
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong
[ Text ID: some nights you are the / lighthouse / some nights the sea ]
#it's always ourselves we find in the sea#night sky with exit wounds#ocean vuong#my upload#poetry#poets of color#literature#dark academia#classic academia#light academia
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— from My Father Writes from Prison, Ocean Vuong, in 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'
[text ID: some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be battered & rebuilt /]
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"My mother said I could be anything I wanted—but I chose to live." ― Ocean Vuong
#Ocean Vuong#words#text#love#mother#Night Sky with Exit Wounds#poetry#dark academia#dark academia aesthetic#light academia#light acadamia aesthetic#chaotic academia#chaotic academia aesthetic#classic academia#classic literature#books#book quotes#literature quotes#deep quotes#life quotes#relatable quotes#bookblr#poetry quotes
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Ocean Vuong by the sea 𓇼 ⋆.˚ 𓆉 𓆝 𓆡⋆.˚ 𓇼
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In the body, where everything has a price,
I was a beggar. On my knees,
I watched, through the keyhole, not
the man showering, but the rain
falling through him: guitar strings snapping
over his globed shoulders.
He was singing, which is why
I remember it. His voice—
it filled me to the core
like a skeleton. Even my name
knelt down inside me, asking
to be spared.
He was singing. It is all I remember.
For in the body, where everything has a price,
I was alive. I didn’t know
there was a better reason.
That one morning, my father would stop
—a dark colt paused in downpour—
& listen for my clutched breath
behind the door. I didn’t know the cost
of entering a song—was to lose
your way back.
So I entered. So I lost.
I lost it all with my eyes
wide open.
Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong
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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.
Ocean Vuong, Into the Breach
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