a slap across the face | Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Trâm & Tâm, 55 & 30

your concern for me is a slap across the face
and I’m awake

amongst my mothering
I need you.

🙂
NB. Not a drop of alcohol in those words.

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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