Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong Carribean Om jag inte hinner vakna

Om jag inte hinner vakna kommer jag till slut fram till hennes sal i drömmen

in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule

Muminpappan sitter på verandan och Muminmamman ordnar snäckskal runt rabatterna

Men när en äldre slav börjar predika härskarens religion vänder sig de förslavade snart mot varandra

på vad Erwan kommer att ha kvar av mig

Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong Carribean Om jag inte hinner vaknaPaperback. Cape Poetry. 2022. New Condition. In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product