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Mirabai in the Mountains

September 23, 2021 in wild words, poetry, nature

The moon was perched

like a golden hawk on the mango tree.

I knew the moon was like me–in heat, crazed and hunting.

So I climbed up there with that wild old gal thinking:

two drunk beauties like us will surely

snag Krishna with our eyes.

Reading the very wonderful sixteenth century Indian poet Mirabai, on a sunny September day in the Pyrenees

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