![]() ![]() Snow on the tanks rolling over the city walls. ![]() The song moving through the city like a widow.Ī white. The treetops glisten and children listen, the chief of police a sprig of magnolia expands like a secret heard Vuong and his family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam when he was two years old. His cigarette as footsteps fill the square like stonesĪs the traffic guard unstraps his holster.Ī military truck speeds through the intersection, children Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. He fills a teacup with champagne, brings it to her lips. South Vietnam, 29 April 1975: Armed Forces Radio played Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ as a code to begin Operation Frequent Wind, the ultimate evacuation of American civilians and Vietnamese refugees by helicopter during the fall of Saigon. ![]()
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