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Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng
They
soon will arrive, knock, on the bluestone slabutter dropping - signs of excitement
thumping, groping, hidden
blackbirds in mating seasons
stained cranes that had burned into atomic
the whole lot in the fey rain
in the ash, fake
years, eleven exactly, there I was conceived
Saturn had done the gorging, Medea the sub
zeroing in, the falling
of whole house, Kabuki eruptions, knowledge,
namings, christenings, rites of wronging
the other, dedications, mementos as if
nothing had really
© Translation: 2011, Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng (Thường Quán)
From: Best Australian Poems 2006
Publisher: Black Inc, Melbourne, 2006
From: Best Australian Poems 2006
Publisher: Black Inc, Melbourne, 2006
Họ
Họ
sẽ đến, gõ đập, trên be đá xanhphân thời gian cực kỳ – dấu hiệu của phấn khích
thùm thụp, sờ soạng, những thân sáo đen nấp náu
trong mùa động tình
những thân hạc vấy bẩn đã cháy thành nguyên tử
toàn bộ trong mưa rây
trong tro, những năm ngụy,
mười một năm, nói chính xác, thời điểm tôi được cấy thai
Saturn đã làm xong cuộc ăn sống, Medea người trầm mình
xong cuộc triệt gien, đổ sập toàn rạp
những tràng pháo tay Kabuki, cái biết,
những gọi tên, xin tên, những lễ thức gây ác hại
cho Kẻ Khác, những truy niệm và truy điệu
làm như không có gì
đã thực sự
© 2011, Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng (Thường Quán)
Translated into Vietnamese by the poet from the English original.
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They
soon will arrive, knock, on the bluestone slabutter dropping - signs of excitement
thumping, groping, hidden
blackbirds in mating seasons
stained cranes that had burned into atomic
the whole lot in the fey rain
in the ash, fake
years, eleven exactly, there I was conceived
Saturn had done the gorging, Medea the sub
zeroing in, the falling
of whole house, Kabuki eruptions, knowledge,
namings, christenings, rites of wronging
the other, dedications, mementos as if
nothing had really
© 2011, Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng (Thường Quán)
From: Best Australian Poems 2006
Publisher: 2006, Black Inc, Melbourne
Translated into Vietnamese by the poet from the English original.
From: Best Australian Poems 2006
Publisher: 2006, Black Inc, Melbourne
They
soon will arrive, knock, on the bluestone slabutter dropping - signs of excitement
thumping, groping, hidden
blackbirds in mating seasons
stained cranes that had burned into atomic
the whole lot in the fey rain
in the ash, fake
years, eleven exactly, there I was conceived
Saturn had done the gorging, Medea the sub
zeroing in, the falling
of whole house, Kabuki eruptions, knowledge,
namings, christenings, rites of wronging
the other, dedications, mementos as if
nothing had really
© 2011, Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng (Thường Quán)
From: Best Australian Poems 2006
Publisher: 2006, Black Inc, Melbourne
From: Best Australian Poems 2006
Publisher: 2006, Black Inc, Melbourne
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