The sugar in coffee beans
“a promise of summer”
The honey in wine
“notes of spring”
On taste buds budding lilacs
the fragrance of sweet yearning
Fresh soft morning dew
In the mist a foggy figure
Warm rays of sunshine
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March 2020
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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