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Lê Vĩnh Tài | a red apple (230)

Lê Vĩnh Tài, the Vietnamese poet and translator, born 1966 in Buon Ma Thuot, Daklak, Vietnam. The retired doctor is still a resident of the Western Highlands, a businessman in Buon Ma Thuot.

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Photo by Juan C. Palacios on Pexels.com

By Lê Vĩnh Tài, translation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm 

a red apple

houses the worms

.

in time

the worms consumes the apple

from the inside out

.

now we have

nothing

but worms

_____

một trái táo màu đỏ

che giấu những con sâu

.

lần hồi

những con sâu ăn rỗng ruột trái

táo

.

bây giờ chúng ta

không còn gì cả

ngoại trừ những con sâu…

_____

JANUARY 2021

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

There's magic in translating a body of work from one language to another.

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