to my nephew and his new wife
to you dear love and your new life
to the small child heart-shaped smile
chubby cheeks clumsy feet on the tile
to the largeness of what is marriage
may your love be the carriage
to a lifetime of vows
to many many wows
be there a furrowed brow or two
I know you can woo
to this family true
my niece you are too
forgive him his clumsy feet
forgive him his chubby cheeks
a woman in the marriage
sometimes is the carriage
but I promise you
when you are blue
my nephew,
who is very very cool
his love will be true
because our love
your family will
carry you.
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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