Thơ at I-95

(Blog)

ôm lòng đêm by Đinh Trường Chinh

A poem in Vietnamese by Đinh Trường Chinh
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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Thơ at I-95

going the distance 

through sections of the forest

clatter of dusk

stints of rain

go

go through

all that past

father was a mountain

mother was just there

a cloud in passing

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dusk drifting

seamlessly through the forest

spirit rolling with the approaching rain

picking my daughter up from a campus 

so far away, the distance seemed but a moment

a flashback.

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now I’m a parent

driving my children

and the faraway clouds

in sahā 

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May 2022