Vietnamese Dragons
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Another Tobias Weber tune I couldn’t resist. Seems to be made for this poem! The violin even resembles the single-stringed Đàn Bầu we heard in Hanoi. Thanks Tobias.
Vietnamese dragons I dream of dragons, smooth and scaled, all kinds of dragons from welsh myth to Puff. And when I awake in the hotel room in Huế there is the dragon fruit centimeters from my face in the bowl of tropical fruit, a gift from hotel staff when we arrived yesterday. today we walk to the Purple Forbidden City, see dragons painted on the roof, as statues, on walls, etched on enormous ancient bronze urns and we spend the whole day wandering the deserted site carrying the backpack with the fruit in a plastic bag. at lunchtime we climb the stone tower and sit cross-legged with our backs against a giant bronze bell and cut the dragon fruit into halves. What a fantastic thing. A fruit designed by a committee, the colours of a watermelon turned inside out, the centre like poppy-seed flecked icecream. like that pink 70s Hare Krishna candle we kept at the shack for power failures, intricate as an Indian temple in jelabi colours, sliced and twirled, and every heatwave it softened & leaned a little more one way, a subcontinental Tower of Pisa. we eat it to the rind leaving pink stripes in the white with our bottom front teeth, looking down on the moat in this land of dragons (from Original Clichés, Ginninderra Press, 2016. text © rob walker) https://www.amazon.com/Original-Cliches-Rob-Walker/dp/1760411272 Play
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