"Secret love", in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Yale University Press, 1996), ISBN 978-0300064100
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books, ISBN 0-425-13365-6
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“So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.”

as the ghost Dariat lies immobile in a wispy limbo
The Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996-1999), The Naked God (1999)

“Reason does not scream. Reason convinces.”
La razón no grita, la razón convence.
Attribution inscribed on the memorial statue in the Puerto Rican Capitol (see right).
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