gazing into the
netherwhich worlds of

earth's cyclical terraform excursion

she stands,
in limbo



the nocturne's child.
springing season to time


diurnal to the shimmering azure skies
of the sun's waking hours
promising the footfalls of a sweatborn rebirth
into the callouses of the yesterdays,
the blisters of the coming year

she waits,
in limbo

the diurn's child.

laying quiet plees upon the whispers of the moon for the
restitude of her kin, passing the night ledden lidded. oblivious to her
quietly shining eye, spawning the coolness of the night.

::
this girl with one eye cast in midnight and the other blazing sky blue:: said she had no friends, only her mama, one brother and some alpacas. alpacas are her favorite animal. she was hungry. i gave her some maize and talked with her a bit. she spoke quietly, her gaze lost into the distance. many children dress up in peru, that tourists may take their picture for a nuevesol. everyday she experiences life as an exotic ambassador into the shining material wealth worn on the faces of those who pass by, from the 'western' world, yet returns home in the mountains to an existence meeted out within the resigned physical poverty of life for the inhabitants of peru's exquisite canyon country.