Pilgrimage
June 2, 2025
The bucket-of-bolts bus tunneling through nightPassing pagoda and lantern light, With satchels lashed to the roof,Brings you through a temple town To a river crossing by pirogue.On the far bank a tonga* waits,Carries you ’cross fallow fields of lumpy paddy,Spoked wooden wheels rolling, Horse straining under a switch Along tortured ruts,Cart lurching, creaking, shudderingFinally to […]