A poem written for my son, on the day he left home.
Published in the August 2022 quarterly publication of Văn Nghệ Biển Khơi 94: http://www.bienkhoi.com/so-94/tho-nguyenthiphuongtram.htm
Half of my life
I’ve been in the role of a mother
–
you left
–
armed
with my heart
son?
Nửa cuộc đời này
mẹ đã đóng vai một người mẹ
–
con đi
–
hành trang con đem
là trái tim
mẹ ư?
_____
June 29th, 2022
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Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.
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