Page 23 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Nguyen remembered the red-brown color of the fertile soil
of high land Ban-Me-Thuot city, where the wind was playing
with the red dust in the air in the summer. The rainy forest
continued from September to November with the red-brown
muddy on over Ban-Me-Thuot city, and the mud bonded slowly
under the shoes to be as the high hill shoes. The white coffee
flowers bloom in the Springtime such as the giant white flower
carpets and the green leafs surrounding the city under the warm
sun. It raised the perfume flying in the air, and Ban-Me-Thuot
became the famous land in the world for the coffee produces.

Ban-Me-Thuot had the small whirlwind running on the
empty ground, which rolled the red dirt and flamboyant red
flowers on both Thong-Nhat boulevard sidewalks into the air.
The flamboyant branches with full red flowers looked like the
giant red carpet hanging on the tops of trees to cover three miles
over Thong-Nhat boulevard. The little strong wind was noisy on
the top of the flamboyant trees, pushed the flamboyant red
flowers out of the branches to make busily in the air under the
hot summer.

The wind lifted the school girls litanies-leaves hats to aside,
and plaid with the dress flags to make it as the giant butterflies
flying around the girl's hips on the Thong-Nhat boulevard
sidewalks. It made the girls blushing with ashamed, and they
hurried to hold up their dress flags, while their eyes were rolling
to check around with others.

Sometimes the red flower stopped by on the schoolgirl
shoulders, who were working on the Thong-Nhat sidewalks at
afternoon, while the sun was going down behind the mountains
at the Western.

Sometimes Nguyen thought of the Draggling waterfall in the
West-South about seven miles from Ban-Me-Thuot city and
closed Chi-Lang resettlement village. Where he likes to face
with the waterfall on another side of its bank, looks at the strong
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