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Magazine Parting Words

journey to emptiness

By Tran Le Khanh

Fall 2021

each time
the monk passes autumn
his Buddhist robe
is drier than a yellow leaf

♦

Tran Le Khanh, “journey to emptiness” from The Beginning of Water, trans. by Tran Le Khanh and Bruce Weigl. Copyright © 2021 by Tran Le Khanh. Translation copyright © 2021 by Bruce Weigl and Tran Le Khanh. Reprinted with permission of White Pine Press.

Tran Le Khanh was born in 1971 in Saigon. After finding success in the field of financial management, he resigned to concentrate on meditation and writing poetry and currently lives with his wife and child in Ho Chi Minh City.