Toy Boat
BY OCEAN VUONG
For Tamir Rice
yellow plastic
black sea
eye-shaped shard
on a darkened map
no shores now
to arrive — or
depart
no wind but
this waiting which
moves you
as if the seconds
could be entered
& never left
toy boat — oarless
each wave
a green lamp
outlasted
toy boat
toy leaf dropped
from a toy tree
waiting
waiting
as if the sp-
arrows
thinning above you
are not
already pierced
by their own names
Ocean Vuong wrote this poem in honor of Tamir Rice, the 12 year old who was murdered by a police officer.
Written by Keira Zirkle
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