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THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) VOLUME 11 NUMBER 1 JAN 2009 |
TRAN MONG TU _____________________________________ I WIL
UNFOLD MY LOVE To my daughter Angela My heart
has a small drawer Big
enough for you to lie down and rest When you
are tired of the boundless sky I will unfold my love as a blanket
In the
bottom of my soul is a flame The
charcoal keeps burning I
collect my gray hairs as twigs, Storage
for your winter days. I have
full length arms Connected
with you as bow and arrow When your arrow shoots to nowhere My heart
vibrates with the string. I have thin aging legs Unable
to marathon with you to life May I
blaze the trail On top
of unwanted thorns and gravel The
clouds are floating through my memory The
leaves in the yard piled as my age Listening
to the wind from ten directions Where
are your clothes flapping? TRAN MONG TU The Writers Post &
literature-in-translation, founded 1999,
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