winter under a low-pitched roof | Trần Duy Trung

Trần Duy Trung, a photo taken by 8 year old Su. 2025

A poem in Vietnamese by Trần Duy Trung
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

it’s one way
to be a poet I say
touch what is not, I may
discern the way
they drift and, fade away

đó là cách
tôi muốn trở thành nhà thơ
để chạm vào
những gì không thể thấy
và nhìn,
chúng trôi đi

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[mùa đông, trong căn nhà mái thấp]

Trần Duy Trung, the poet born in 1981, in Truc Ninh, Nam Dinh, currently lives in Nha Trang, 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.

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