A poem in Vietnamese by Lê Vĩnh Tài
Translators: Đoàn Duy & Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Let me paint a chamber sweet with your scent
If walls in utterance do express
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Let them tell of my delight
Of how I clasped your breath so tight.
[Đoàn Duy]
March 2023
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Let me draw a room to hold the scent of you
If the walls could talk
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Let them talk
Of how I would hold tightly the billow of your breath…
[Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm]
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April 2019
Đoàn Duy, the translator is from Saigon, Vietnam.
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.
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