The Secret of Hoa Sen by Nguyen Phan Que Mai & Bruce Weigl

Author:Nguyen Phan Que Mai & Bruce Weigl [Mai, Nguyen Phan Que & Weigl, Bruce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Poems, Poetry
ISBN: 9781938160523
Amazon: 1938160525
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2014-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

I sing for you the highland’s waves, softening the stone shore.

I sing for you storks’ wings of the south.

I sing for you the northern sunlight’s grassy fragrance

carrying you towards your river home.

MY FATHER

I board the train; clouds blur my father’s hair.

The train hooting bursts into tears.

My father’s fragile figure, the afternoon wind

cuts into us, chilling. Heavily

the turn of separation churns.

Behind me, the dry fields are uneven in the scorching sun.

My father’s hands hardened and scarred,

sprinkling green seasons to come on the fields.

Under his back, stories of the seasons of rice harvests;

the words of good work sing out with the sweat

and hope he breaths in every day.

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