Saturday, March 4, 2023

François Luong : Ways to Translate (for Amish Trivedi,

from Report from the Trivedi Society, Vol. 1 No. 1

 

 

 
There are no resolutions,
only more crises coming on.
               Amish Trivedi, from
Spree

 

Out of this latest calamity
what of the red tip

mistaken for
the absence of a red tip

          plastic glistening
unmistakable for metal

               It’s all about the finish
              
Then there was none

     Out of two

The cruiser arrives
on time in all time zones

          Akimbo or ablaze

Drop the prop near the body
to explain its small shape

Then the chorus will find
fault with the scene

how there should have
been a surrender

how the spine couldn’t
bend any further back

Can’t fall down. Already
on or below the ground

How this path ends
without ending in

what you write
what you build here

 

 

 

 

Originally from Strasbourg, France, François Luong currently lives in Oakland, California. He edited with Amish Trivedi the online poetry journal N/A (www.nalitjournal.com). When not writing, translating, or cartooning, he likes to tease Amish over their shared love of drive pedals and Telecasters.