Across the Ocean: Writing Prompt

This week, we are using today's poem (Eurydice by Ocean Vuong) as our inspiration.

The trick to this type of prompt is to make your piece so wildly different than the source material that a reader, including (in this case) Vuong himself, would have no idea that you used his poem as your jumping off point. This makes it quite different from writing that is blatantly a reaction to/parody of/homage to/study of another piece (this would include everything from Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story; "Wha...