THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation. VOLUME 11 NUMBER 1 JAN 2009

KHE IEM __________________________________ three poems by KHE IEM translated by Do Vinh, edited by Carol J. Compton Lingering pour out breaths and sit stretched into a place empty-handed bend back motionless as such until a drop of afternoon bell dissolves the self and objects that are created lie silent as in the past being covered up by the lattice wings of prayers pacing on the face of the earth and acknowledging a call lingering at the head of the whirlpool Crossing bite off a piece of sorrow to make snakes and dragons flirt to coax each other across the splendid river distinguished by the afternoon’s southeasterly winds Coffee set the oars the empty ferry-boat supposes such metaphorical words do not trifle with memory irascible it has come time to bury alive breath itself drip drop the coffee drips � The Writers Post the magazine of literature & literature-in-translation, founded 1999, based in the US. VOLUME 11 ISSUE 1 JAN 2009 Copyright © Khe Iem & The Writers Post 2009. Nothing in this magazine may be downloaded, distributed, or reproduced without the permission of the author/ translator/ artist/ The Writers Post/ and Wordbridge magazine. Creating links to place The Writers Post or any of its pages within other framesets or in other documents is copyright violation, and is not permitted. Return to Contents HOME