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Somehow we’re now Harold Lloyd/Jackie Chan, letting go of the minute hand, dropping
ourselves right onto Magritte’s moving steam locomotive:

If we time it just right

I bet we could get it to
catch us,

dead on the
tailbone. Right between

the washout plugs
and whistle. Zero-
backspin earth

under us, itty bitty
clouds

all around us.



Duy Đoàn (zwē dwän) is the author of We Play a Game, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. He received an MFA in poetry from Boston University. His second collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, is forthcoming from Alice James Books, November 2024.
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