Split by Cathy Linh Che

Author:Cathy Linh Che
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2019-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

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In Vietnam, the landscape

is aftermath—

tourist shops, sunbathers,

packs of motorbikes—

there were still

bomb craters

and in them, the grass

grown in.

No one talked of the war,

but history

was in the billboards,

in the films

the tourists watched

at the tunnels at Củ Chi.

At the War Remnants Museum,

there were pictures on display:

children born with defects—

a child with no legs,

children with water-swollen brains.

Transmutations

You watch the fire break into pieces. Flecks of cinder jag like fireflies. There is a hole in your shirt. Fireworks howl in the street behind you. A wave lunges and disperses. One property of water is fluidity. You kiss it and it stays on your lips. Soon, it’ll evaporate and return to its own giant body

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