A poem in Vietnamese by Sấu Mã
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

That fresh plate of fruit in your room

Swallowing my saliva 

Peeved you didn’t invite me

To see the exhibition

Ah 

It’s plastic

Those paintings, paintings and the crowd

Pointing 

A torrent of chit chat like the tides.

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April 2019

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MẪU GỐC

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Đĩa trái tươi phòng anh 

Tôi nuốt nước bọt

Hậm hực vì chẳng thấy mời

Xem triển lãm

À

Nó bằng nhựa

Những tranh, tranh và đám đông 

Chỉ trỏ

Tiếng chem chép như thủy triều.

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8/2/2017

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Sấu Mã, the poet is a retired professor living in Vietnam.

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.