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Hill Station Poet
By
Bonita Eley

© Bonita Eley 1999

When the Himalayan air 
fills with bird song 
you greet each as a friend 
and hand it to me 
as if it were a flower

Together we climb a banyan tree 
smell the crushed clover 
listen to the monsoon 
(warm, you explain, 
not like the December rains) 

All with words on a page 

I touch the paper 
and feel it warm 
beneath my fingers 
as if 
I'd touched your face