A short visit to Hanoi and HCMC

White clouds lie low
Crew squatting on the tarmac
Between bright puddles

Water Buffalo
Rendered terrace balconies
Always a red flag

The gunmen long gone
Images of bogeymen
Swing in quiet rooms

Bend of the river
Women squat on green bulwarks
Wrestling with laundry

Birdcage café
Young men smoking on their mopeds
Red flag, silver sky

Bành mi takes me back
First taste of coriander
Down on Dixon street

Steamed rice paper roll
Green salad rice noodle
With crab meat and snails

​A Dàn Bâu lesson
Touch harmonics with the palm
Ride the whammy bar

​A note to self
Don't try to draw the inside
Of a limestone cave
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Tunnels of Cu Chi
Thousands of replanted trees
Tourists let off rounds

Dredging yellow sand
Barges low in the water
Choked by hyacinth

Women's museum
Sexy ladies with rifles
Can't argue with that

I love this photo
The ludicrous proportions 
Sexy undertone

More pastoral scenes
Resourceful folk in the fields
Ready for combat

Bitter Melon, mint
Basil, lettuce, cucumber
Chili, sugar, beef

Lenin looking down
On a Sunday afternoon
Holding a hammer
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These guys now how to 
Accessorise a Vespa
The french connection?

Remember My Lai
The inhumanity of men
​Following orders
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Above the tangled growth
This defiant bridge stretches
Into the white glare

Bend of the river
Squat factory producing
Bird's nest in a can

Their udders submerged
Friesians chew on the green weed
Outboard motors groan

Last Day of Tet
Devout people trace their names 
On the temple wall

The doppler effect
Orchestras of scooter horns
Going out of tune

Last couple of hours
Spent tramping the old quarter
Glad I wore trainers

As I leave Hanoi
The Long Bien bridge remains
Beneath it, water

Boarding gate 30
Another middle aged man
​Also bought paintings

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