![]() While this might be somewhat uncomfortable for most readers to wrap their heads around, such a project is actually quite understandable when contextualized within the collection's larger preoccupation with the many potentials of the body. Like "Threshold" before it, "A Little Closer to the Edge" is a poem that positions the speaker as an observer of the parents-this time in a more explicitly sexual context. At the poem's conclusion, the speaker addresses his mother and asks her to teach him how to love a man properly, before appealing to a land "where apples thunder / the earth with red hooves. ![]() We are also told that the father will strike the mother figure in the near future. The poem follows a sexual encounter between the speaker's father and mother, and it uses the language of the Garden of Eden to describe their coupling. ![]() The poem "A Little Closer to the Edge" is the fifth poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds, located in the first section. ![]()
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