THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation. VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 JAN 2006

HUY TUONG __________________________________ THE PATH Translated from the original ‘Con Duong’, by N. Saomai Down our way let’s go then, darling when below the mountain the evening is filled with rising icy chill. And we a bee and ant up the hill now trying, and now no word whispering the blue moon¾ the word of spiritual scenery. Take the step, but slowly by the row of trees and shake not¾ lest the day falls. Our shadows are now cast over the pass down below Any feeling of desolation, darling? Let’s lie down here to sleep in this autumn forest Let’s awake the next morn to find our bodies midst the shrouding mist In the morn we’ll desert it¾ the city, and forget it all And alone, we direct our walks through this path leading to nothingness. Original version: Con đường này em ta dắt nhau về vang vang dưới núi chiều tê lạnh rồi cái ong cái kiến qua đồi và trăng xanh nữa im lời nước mây bước chầm chậm dưới hàng cây đừng rung em nhé sợ ngày rụng theo bóng ta rớt dưới chân đèo em ơi có thấy ít nhiều hoang vu thôi nằm ngủ dưới rừng thu mai ta thức dậy thân mù mịt sương... mai ta bỏ phố quên phường dìu nhau đi suốt con đường hư không Dalat 1971 HUY TUONG The Writers Post the magazine of literature & literature-in-translation, founded 1999, based in the US. VOLUME 8 ISSUE 1 JAN 2006 Editorial note: Works published in this issue are simultaneously published in the printed Wordbridge magazine (ISSN: 1540-1723). Copyright © N. Saomai / Nguyen Sao Mai 2006. Nothing in this magazine may be downloaded, distributed, or reproduced without the permission of the author/ translator/ artist/ The Writers Post/ and Wordbridge magazine. Creating links to place The Writers Post or any of its pages within other framesets or in other documents is copyright violation, and is not permitted. Return to Contents HOME

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