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Lê Vĩnh Tài | he pulled me up against his body (243)

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 poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

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By Lê Vĩnh Tài, translated by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

he pulled me up against his body

on fire

.

my heart bled

.

softly

and gently

.

he kept touching it

until upon death

I’m alive.

—

chàng kéo em lên để chống lại cơ thể của chàng

trên lửa

.

trái tim em chảy máu

.

êm 

và mềm

.

chàng cứ chạm vào 

cho đến khi em

chết đi sống lại…

_____

MARCH 2021

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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

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