Viet Nam
Poet: Hoang Hung
Translator: Nguyen Do & Paul Hoover
The Madwoman
Carrying a broken brick on her head
She walks and sings
Evening comes gradually at the end of the street
She walks and sings
Fragments of a tranquil song
break in my heart
Alas, the madness of tile and brick
Please sing and sing again
of all the destruction
you carry in your head