“Telemachus” by Ocean Vuong, from Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon, 2016)
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Muddy Bank 
Very nice poem. Wonderful use of pacing. I feel the transition of the generations in the time of the sea. The violence is jarring. Bevis Schock