Your absence
my withered breath
the desiccation of my soul
allow me the fall
to the earth
this awry ego
allow me the delusion of a seed
let me bleed
through the cool pungent soil
let me recoil
from my place
next to
you.
May 2021
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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