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Wasps

Wasps

By Ho Xuan Huong

Translated By Marilyn Chin Read the translator's notes

Where are you wandering to, little fools
Come, big sister will teach you how to write verse
Itchy little wasps sucking rotting flowers
Horny baby lambkins butting gaps in the fence

Source: Poetry (April 2008).

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Poet Ho Xuan Huong

POET’S REGION Asia, East

Subjects Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets

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