Outside Quang Tri City, 1968
If I could choose one poem of mine that illustrates the way the war never truly leaves you, it would be this one. I wrote it to show that to the reader, that’s all.
Six Senryu from the Kitchen
in the kitchen
I don’t know how to act
meeting my flame
Thinking about Her
‘Thinking about Her’ is simply what it says. I was thinking about a friend of mine, but the surprise, at least for me, is the sad face of the statue. That’s what she said to me, this friend, one day in Ha Noi.
Supermoon
It doesn’t arrive so much as continue
to exist, this blue supermoon
exactly who she was just days before.
An Autocorrect Poem
I like writing because it’s fun to make up stories and write about your ideas. It can be not real in the world but it becomes real when you write it.