DRINKING ALONE

By Vũ Ngọc Giao, translation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

*with my other namesakes

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I’m sitting side by I

in the echoes of a crackling waterfall

spilling into dusk

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there in a staggering moment

the saddest of birdsong

the tweets of a lifetime !

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December 2020

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Vũ Ngọc Giao, the Vietnamese musician and poet born 1951, My Tho. A former student Petrus Ký Sài Gòn (1961 – 1968), an alumnus of the Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Literature Saigon (1968 – 1970), he is the founder of Phu Nhuan Guitar Club, Saigon. His poetry is published on many literary websites. A few familiar songs: Looking back at my life, The man with sad eyes (a poem by Đỗ Trung Quân), His return on a rainy night, The July rain…
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Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

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