His Mother From the Sky

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…Pahn wants to get there
                        but there are no more tickets

He buys a ticket to another place      instead
thinking it is better to go somewhere
than to stay
After entering the station                                                   
he realizes
                that once inside
he may take any train he likes

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wandering about a University building…

                                                                         …after a while
sitting on a balcony
with Yaohwa

looking over the side
he sees the backs of wild animals                                  dogs?
                                   peccaries?
he asks Yaohwa which they are                              
 
                                Yaohwa doesn’t know
but soon they show their tusks

Pahn sprays them with water                 
                                     from a hose
to shoo them away

he is making a mess with emotion     without effect

One peccary jumps up to the hose
biting the nozzle                   
Pahn shakes it                                                
to knock him off…


…Pahn is driving a rented camper-van
Aiks follows                              
in a car

They stop at a sign                                                          
and Pahn gets out of the van
The people in the car behind them     honk      
and Pahn gets back in the car
                    to get out of their way…

…They are sitting in the grass                         
             There is lightning in the distance    obscured
                                                 by the tall brush
Pahn gets up excitedly                                              
trying to get a better view
 
                     The electricity quickly cracks above
revealed                                                    
                               as a cloud-shrouded metallic rock
lightning rays pouring   from
                                                      a hole in its side
splintering
and                        
                                  cascading
                                   all
around                                           

Pahn’s awe turns to fear                                         
as the rock descends
as if to take him
 
          The clouds clear away showing
                            the rock in the shape of a silver bed
                                                                      with many lights

circling down to Pahn and Aiks
           turning into a geodesic sphere
                                               of shiny plates
                           encrusted with lights     and bolts

and Pahn shoos it away like the Peccary

What is he afraid of? …

…Back in the van                                              
Pahn misses the exit
pulling on cords to slow the vehicle
as it turns into a bobsled
sliding to a stop
nearly rolling

They have come to a place that they have
                                                                        visited recently
near Rakhehla’s land—

mild hills
                           of soft spring grass

and old blossoming   orchards

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