Nightghts #1: my beloved what are you doing
Translated By Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng
walking stretching extending cutting counting twisting extracting warming terrorizing tenderizing commanding detaining enslaving lusting fearing scorning crying boring damaging decaying draining pouring staring endgaming pausing opening rethinking bleaching dreaming dancing racing scattering fusing hammering piledriving marching screaming covering throwing squeezing rummaging darting edging blurring the edge breaking the face lashing lacerating slipping drifting dissolving smudging disappearing stumbling feeling foolish laughing turning to irony swelling surrendering sky-eating soil-eating kind of dying victimizing forgetting darkening darkening shivering aching vibrating falling shedding crashing bouncing showering sprouting exploding leaking running straying glowing repenting crawling to a little clean spot in the ground weeping seeping seeping foaming flaming scoring wondering learning looking above looking below looking lower than below remeasuring turning off the mic clearing the skull making a note stirring stirring stilling sighing
sighing one more time
Translated from the Vietnamese
Source: Poetry (February 2022)