CD_ __ 2 years wandering in the old Europe then to India 1974 we headed and across the continent and into the other places.. we did not name.. the around the places temples then finding Angkor Wat and over up 'round the
Khyber trail -- camped outside and headed over and around the lines cutting across the
mother body of India to the Deer Park Benares and the Bo tree ~ Buddha Saint Bodhisattva .. wanted to get back to the fall lectures.. o ver in France...and the heat was devastating and no deva-sura could handle it... as the grand voice would speak.. again but we were caught in the drift...
and we jaunted runnin g the trails the foothills of the Himalayas
and we'd heard of the place Tibet.
but there was no time and there were soldiers there... from China invading packs of wild armies on the mob patrol.. headed by Mao's henchmen.. so aiming back to Europe the long way through the Balkans and into Zagreb and then over to Beograd.... here was the city of Tito's country and G. said to me do you understand it , that's when we picked up our first cat. ..
CP: these were the early cheap travels?
CD: Aye, aye. there were in them far off times.. our persian maps kept the clock..
On the return we stopped over the Greek islands and over the waters of Priapus.. past the Cyclades and boating over the water.. inland moving on the water.weaves .. on some weird boat... and I made a friend then an English guy and we hit the sea burst waters turned out he'd been a guy on a sail boat gone all the way to Canada with it... over the Atlantic we swapped stories... and we moved along closer to Israel.. .the holy land...
... visited to Jerusalem.. into September and I'd met a poet older than me some years or so and she'd been there before 1967 war and there was a haunting quality to it and her visit's recounting said as much she'd met men who ridden with Lawernce.. .and there was a strange mist rising from the past...
and the skies surely of Jerusalem have never been forgotten in my head and eyes and ears and hands and tasting the dust of that place the sky..
CP Did you both make it back to France , and in time , too?
CD Aye aye but barely just with enough ..
CP and your passport from those days?
CD that passport sweated in out life and death in those days all over the place...
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imperfect adjustments of night
the sea's day is thunder
dog rose wandering
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