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In the red moments,

redness crushed my heart gently.

Silence interrupted my breath from time to time.

 

Redness crushed my heart gently.

Blankness emerged in my brain.

Flow of air was blocked with an open mouth.

Blankness emerged in my brain.

The red was colorless.

Silence interrupted my breath from time to time.

 

The red was colorless.

In the red moments,

flow of air was blocked with an open mouth.

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Duc Van Khanh Tran is currently a Computer Science Ph.D. student at National University of Singapore. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Linguistics and has started using mathematical poetry forms to write poems since senior year in university. His English and Mandarin Chinese poems are published in
The Orange Rose, 《新大陆》, 《雨林诗刊》, etc. Updates on publication of his poems can be found on
duc-van-khanh-tran-poetry.carrd.co
.