armed with my heart

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

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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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Half of my life

I’ve been in the role of a mother

–

you left

–

armed

with my heart

son?

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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.