Tư lự?

half a lifetime
yet dead

flesh oozing
the aching juice of passion

the fat maggots
six feet under
the lovers

so
I’ve
wondered

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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.