When I am sick she spends sleepless nights by my sick-bed.
To me she is like a living goddess who takes all kinds of pain and care for my sake. In the span of two months, from September to November, they will move, one wing beat at a time, from southern Canada and the United States to portions of central Mexico, where they will spend the winter. 1 MY MOTHER Of all the persons in the world my mother loves me most and I also love her from the core of my heart. Somewhere over Michigan, a colony of monarch butterflies, numbering more than fifteen thousand, are beginning their yearly migration south. When I was a little girl and a stray cat came into our yard, my mother never said, 'Love that cat.' She didnt need to. The war you lived through is long gone, but its ricochets have become taxidermy, enclosed by your own familiar flesh.Īutumn. How perhaps it was not the grotesque that shook you but that the taxidermy embodied a death that won’t finish, a death that dies perpetually as we walk past it to relieve ourselves. A poem to my mother that she will never read by Caroline Reid - Meet the Winners - Competitions : Mslexia, a magazine for womens writing and women who. I am thinking, only now, about that buck’s head, its black glass eyes. Can’t they see it’s a corpse? A corpse should move on, not stay forever like that. I don’t understand why they would do that. I am writing to go back to the time, at the rest stop in Virginia, when you stared, horror-struck, at the taxidermy buck hanging over the soda machine by the rest rooms, your face darkened by its antlers.
Aesthetic.I am writing to reach you-even if each word I put down is one word further from where you are. Absolutely loved the raw and real content in this! * * * * #poetrynovel #letterstomom #onearthwerebrieflygorgeous #oceanvuong #readsinseptember #loveislove #littledog #booktob #readersofinstagram #bujocommunity #readingjournal #readingrainbow #bookstagram #bulletjournal #bulletjournalspread #readersoftiktok #readersofbooktok". It is clear from every sentence in this book that Vuong is a poet. In the following paragraphs I will discus how well the author handling irony, writing style, and theme through the novel.
Many authors affirm that it is a great literature, including Hemingway, an American novelist and journalist. TikTok video from mabel 🗣(mah-bell) "Finished reading On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong and I am in love with the form Vuong uses to express! Vuong writes this epistolary novel to share parts of himself with his mother who will never read it. The non fiction calls: Letters My Mother Never Read by Jerri Diane Sueck is a wonderful piece of writing. Absolutely loved the raw and real content in this! * * * * #poetrynovel #letterstomom #onearthwerebrieflygorgeous #oceanvuong #readsinseptember #loveislove #littledog #booktob #readersofinstagram #bujocommunity #readingjournal #readingrainbow #bookstagram #bulletjournal #bulletjournalspread #readersoftiktok #readersofbooktokģ05 Likes, 15 Comments. Finished reading On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong and I am in love with the form Vuong uses to express! Vuong writes this epistolary novel to share parts of himself with his mother who will never read it.
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