one lonely hand

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

Lê Vĩnh Tài by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

a lonely hand

reached out 

& pulled me back

into my shadow

one hand, you’re the only one

I could…

thank you

now the blood I bleed is black

August 2019

_____

một bàn tay cô độc 

vươn ra 

kéo tôi trở lại 

bóng tối của mình

bàn tay, bạn là người duy nhất

tôi có thể…

cám ơn bạn

tôi

bây giờ chảy máu màu đen

 

Lê Vĩnh Tài, the poet and translator born in 1966 in Buon Ma Thuot, Daklak, Vietnam. The retired doctor is still a resident of the Western Highlands and a businessman in Buon Ma Thuot.

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.

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

There's magic in translating a body of work from one language to another.

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  1. Pingback: one lonely hand | Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News

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