Phan Nhiên Hạo, translated from the Vietnamese by Hai-Dang Phan
It’s already past midnight but the sun has never been late. Waiting at the end of the street the sun will catch a yellow tram and come meet us in a café just opening its doors.
in Braque so I stepped in to see
what it was she saw
Never mind she said
without your broken shadow
playing across his lines
it’s just another boring cubist nude
Lance Larsen is the author of five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa, 2018). His poems have appeared in APR, TLS, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Orion, MQR, New York Review of Books, Threepenny Review, Paris Review, New Republic, New England Review, and Best American Poetry 2009.
