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Truong Tran
perhaps in another time
perhaps in another time
in een andere tijd zou ons verhaal misschien anders worden er zou geen weggaan zijn dus geen terugkeren jij zou de leraar zijn in een dorp in het noorden en ik de visser we zouden rustig samenwonen met op de achtergrond het sjirpen van krekels het fluisteren van de zeeadem en gedichten zouden als onkruid uit de scheuren van ons leven groeien misschien zijn de kikker en de schorpioen in dat leven beter af als geliefden
© Vertaling: 2011, Jabik Veenbaas
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,
perhaps in another time our story would be different there would be no leaving and thus no returning you would be the teacher in a northern village and i the fisherman we would live quietly to the background singing of cicadas the whispering of the ocean’s breath and poems like weeds would go from the cracks of our lives perhaps in that life the frog and the scorpion are better off as lovers
© 2002, Truong Tran
From: dust and conscience
Publisher: Apogee Press, Berkeley
From: dust and conscience
Publisher: Apogee Press, Berkeley
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perhaps in another time
perhaps in another time our story would be different there would be no leaving and thus no returning you would be the teacher in a northern village and i the fisherman we would live quietly to the background singing of cicadas the whispering of the ocean’s breath and poems like weeds would go from the cracks of our lives perhaps in that life the frog and the scorpion are better off as lovers
From: dust and conscience
perhaps in another time
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