Wistful

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, translation into Vietnamese by Lê Vĩnh Tài

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Wishful from within the haze a maze of longing

Abandoned dazed on the gravel grating

I’m on my knees

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The engorgement of an ocean of damp wanting.

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mơ ước từ mê cung của một sương mù

của khao khát

bị bỏ rơi bàng hoàng

tôi quỳ gối trên sỏi

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sự ngấu nghiến một đại dương khát khao ẩm ướt.

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JANUARY 2021

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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.

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.