Annapurnas Revisited
for Sukrity, Rachel and Alison
Lost a T- shirt
near a crystal waterfall
a notebook
with names of birds and shamans of the canyons
finches, larks and red billed coughs
swifts, lammergeyers, griffins and redstarts
my rainbow colored umbrella
with flowers and million butterflies trapped in it
one of the lens
of my looking glass in a pond at Hot springs
lost excess fat,
double chin, pouch of my belly,
drooling flesh of my cheekbones
lost worries of my city struggles
in the leech-greasy forests,
oak and maple, conifers and rhododendrons
threw a copy of the bestseller
over the rusty bars of a squeaking wooden ridge
for the bearded goats
of the famed valleys to read and rejoice
lost fears
of finding right words
perfect dreams,
faultless partners along
narrow cliffside tracts
skirting utter horror of highest precipices
lost my unease
along with my troubled heart
to the glaciers
of Annapurnas…
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