Ocean Vuong
Thơ Mỗi Ngày
By Ocean
Vuong
Ocean Vuong
is a Vietnamese-born poet. His first collection, “Night Sky with Exit
Wounds,”
is due out next year.
Note: Trên Tin Văn đã giới
thiệu Ocean Vuong, qua bài thơ xử VC
After the infamous 1968
photograph of a Viet Cong officer executed by South Vietnam's
national police
chief.
What hurts the most
is not how death
is made permanent
by the cameras flash
the irony of sunlight
on gunmetal
but the hand gripping the pistol
is a yellow hand,
and the face squinting
behind the barrel
a yellow face.
is not how death
is made permanent
by the cameras flash
the irony of sunlight
on gunmetal
but the hand gripping the pistol
is a yellow hand,
and the face squinting
behind the barrel
a yellow face.
Like all photographs this one
fails
to reveal the picture.
Like where the bullet
entered his skull
the phantom of a rose
leapt into light, or how
after smoke cleared
from behind the fool
with blood on his cheek
and the dead dog by his feet
to reveal the picture.
Like where the bullet
entered his skull
the phantom of a rose
leapt into light, or how
after smoke cleared
from behind the fool
with blood on his cheek
and the dead dog by his feet
a white man
was lighting a cigarette.
was lighting a cigarette.
ASIA LITERARY REVIEW
SUMMER 2010
SUMMER 2010
Xử VC
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