A poem in Vietnamese by Lê Vĩnh Tài Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

you would write write with the making of a world on fire a burden upon poetry the burgeoning glory in your hand the words swelling-up on command encryptions carved in rocks the complicated vows of a nation the words polished with your sweat your pain write everything that is within your grasp so much so that the hairs on your skin would curl up with the thoughts in your head write what is impossible drill a hole drill a hole through this Godforsaken life… … the light dawning on your face on your pages of poetry attacks your loneliness like a dagger the flash rips apart darkness the passion reserved for all the light makes you blush you don’t like it the damp wet spit those in a line those waiting their…
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