A Stop in His Mother's Ancestral Homeland

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…reclining.....................
in an ocean liner
eyes closed
.................floating
..................................almost weightless
.uneasily trusting
he knows
they are safely cruising
in the open ocean

Letting down his guard
talking to Aiks
belittling his fears
he feels the boat turn
abruptly..........................
with urgency...........
and moments of lost faith......................
..................come in beats

Rising..............................
and coming to the deck
they disembark...........................
to a village resort in a bay

The inlet’s end...........................
has but a week stream coming
from a short canyon

Still...Pahn has Aiks wait
while he explores

As expected.....................
it is only........broken...................
.........crumbling
.............sandstone
in steep
.................and discontinuous walls
.................with patches of brush

and short falls

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