hoa cam gia

Khong phai la mat trang, toi noi voi ban.
Chinh nhung bong hoa ay
roi sang cai san

Toi ghet chung.
Toi ghet chung nhu ghet tinh duc,
cai mieng ga dan ong
dan chat vao mieng toi, co the
ga dan ong nam bat dong—

va tieng ren luon thoat ra
thap kem, nhuc nha
tien de cua hop hoan—

dem nay trong tam tri toi
toi nghe cau hoi va theo duoi cau tra loi
hop nhat trong mot thanh am
no ruon len, ruon len, va roi tach ra lam hai ban the cu xua
nhung doi khang met moi. Ban thay chua?
Chung ta da bi lua.
Va mui hoa cam gia
len loi qua cua so.

Lam the nao toi co the nghi ngoi?
Lam the nao toi co the hai long
khi van con
cai mui kia tren the gian?

17/8/2023
Tran Duc Pho phong dich
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MOCK ORANGE
By Louise Glück

It is not the moon, I tell you.
It is these flowers
lighting the yard.

I hate them.
I hate them as I hate sex,
the man’s mouth
sealing my mouth, the man’s
paralyzing body—

and the cry that always escapes,
the low, humiliating
premise of union—

In my mind tonight
I hear the question and pursuing answer
fused in one sound
that mounts and mounts and then
is split into the old selves,
the tired antagonisms. Do you see?
We were made fools of.
And the scent of mock orange
drifts through the window.

How can I rest?
How can I be content
when there is still
that odor in the world?
Source: The First Four Books of Poetry (The Ecco Press, 1995)
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