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Floating Sweet Dumpling

By Ho Xuan Huong
Translated By Marilyn Chin
My body is powdery white and round
I sink and bob like a mountain in a pond
The hand that kneads me is hard and rough
You can't destroy my true red heart

Notes:

Read the translator's notes on this poem.

Source: Poetry (April 2008)
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Poetry Magazine April 2008 issue cover, with Balint Zsako's illustration, "Untitled".
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