Bio

Duc Van Khanh Tran is currently a Computer Science Ph.D. student at National University of Singapore. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Linguistics and has started using mathematical poetry forms to write poems since senior year in university. His English and Mandarin Chinese poems are published in The Orange Rose,
≪新大陆≫, ≪雨林诗刊≫, etc. Updates on publications of his poems can be found on
duc-van-khanh-tran-poetry.carrd.co.

On
the
canvas
of blackness,
no stars to be seen—
loneness permeates the night sky.
On
the
canvas
of darkness,
sadness occupies;
still, a small crescent smile stands out,
shining amidst the
canvas of
loneness
in
black.
The crescent moon, though surrounded
by a canvas of
sadness, still
gives a
bright
smile.