True Gem of Life

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True Gem of Life

drifting spirits

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by  Nguyễn Lãm Thắng
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm 


Saigon, Vietnam

DRIFTING SPIRITS

along with a period of depression
drifting spirits
wavering spectres through a stifling sunrise
a Sun caked with dried blood
breathlessly hovers above the savage concrete tombs
in darkness
the drifting spirits trampled upon each other
viewed each other with suspicion
chilling barred owlets’ eyes 
respiring what’s left of what faith has to offer
rampant growls of wolves
screams of the unjustified spirits
throngs of terrified insecurity
paralyzed spirits
via the repeated constant familiar flattery
the paralyzed spirits
via the age-old repeated deceit
the paralysed spirits
via an environment macerated by the stench of the mass
the spirits drifting
above the moving footprints across a starving meadow

January 2021
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The hero sat there crying

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Thái Hạo
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm


source: Thái Hạo’s social media page

The hero sat there crying

Each time a person lay down their life
we would rise one by one
pick up the battered old bullets
and throw them at each other

a nation in battle for thousand and thousands of years
gangs in a school yard
their forefinger the barrel of a gun
continuous rounds of laughter battered the foreheads of their classmates
the silent bullets in our memory
shifting 
anxiously
a cemetery

The hero sat there crying
over the death of his nemesis
a dejected child going home
without an enemy to shoot at them

the sadness of peace
our nation 
our heroes’ punishment
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JANUARY 2022

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In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, deforesters foot the bill for political campaigns

Half of Mato Grosso state legislators bankrolled by violators

In total, 62 candidates for governor, state legislator, federal legislator, senator, and alternative candidates were funded by environmental violators in elections in Mato Grosso. Of these, 19 were elected to office, including the current governor, businessman Mauro Mendes (União Brasil party), who is running for reelection.

The same analysis also reveals the influence that these elected politicians have had in office. Since 2019, they’ve occupied half of the state legislature, five of Mato Grosso’s eight seats in the lower House of Congress (known as the Chamber of Deputies), and one of its two seats in the upper House, the Senate.

Mato Grosso sits at the meeting point between three of Brazil’s most important biomes: the Amazon rainforest, Cerrado savanna, and Pantanal wetlands. It also recorded the most campaign donations from environmental violators in past elections, totaling almost 6 million reais ($1.5 million) as of 2018. It was followed by the states of Rondônia, with 4.3 million reais ($1.1 million); São Paulo, with 1.6 million reais ($411,000); and Tocantins, with 1.5 million reais ($385,000).

Source: In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, deforesters foot the bill for political campaigns

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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