Time Is A Mother Category_INCENSE he's giving her control over

he's giving her control over his soul

But when stories can’t be trusted

But Frankie knows trauma

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Time Is A Mother Category_INCENSE he's giving her control overTime Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong is a luminous contemporary poetry collection that sits close to the heart, written in the wake of his mothers death. If you love literary poetry thats emotionally precise yet surprising on the page, this is the kind of book youll want to linger with. Across these poems, Vuong moves through grief and its aftershocks while still reaching for the textures of everyday life: family bonds, memory, desire, and the hard won