When pain enters pain it creates light
illuminates the very pale soul
we look into each other’s eyes without illusions Continue reading
Category Archives: Works
Grateful footprints
The Cham came to this place
made ditches to grow rice / burned forests for gardens Continue reading
The multifaceted tower of Champa
Chế Lan Viên sees the tower in ruins
[Inra]sara discovers the tower of sunlight Continue reading
Her portrait
Your skin and flesh are flourishing – your clothes restricted
Population is increasing – housing always limited Continue reading
Father
Past
under the overwhelming sifting of history
father survived. Continue reading
Ideas without seasons
Wish you would be silent
so that I can bathe in your
fragile sunlight Continue reading
Inrasara’s quatrains
GLANG ANAK
Glang Anak I learned by heart in childhood
Through empty seasons I read again a hundred times Continue reading
No one can sing in our place
No one can sing in our place
here and now
even in days to come, perhaps Continue reading
Deep footprints
In respectful memory of my father’s venerated soul.
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Extinguished the last flame
the end of eighty years of land life Continue reading
Backward looks
Those who exhausted themselves for the resounding of the towers Continue reading