ANNE CASEY
Sagarmāthā
Dreaming
“The
stars are setting, and the caravan
starts
for the dawn of nothing.”
– The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam*
i.
Mountain Retreat
I
feel the herd move
in
restless concert,
the
mountain pass teeming
with
resonating silence
like
a breath from beyond.
Dust
pricks a legion of eyes,
blinking
closed and open.
Paths
lead outward, inward
as
a cry rises amid the deathless
march
where all the answers
are
darkness, spirits wasting
under the first burn of day.
‘Mountain Retreat’ was inspired by a workshop given by poet, Paul Muldoon at the Himalayan Literature Festival 2026.
ii.
City Sanctuary
Spreading
wide her many-bangled arms,
squirrels
touched by Rama
nestling
in her spilling tresses,
the
Banyan sylph tiptoes
through
the night garden.
Past
the sleeping Buddha,
white
elephants nodding
either
side, she breathes
iridescence
into grey city air.
Lone
witness, amongst the glinting
lily
pads, a water-rooted stork wafts
drizzling
wings to mimic her midnightly ballet.
‘City Sanctuary’ was inspired by a reading given by poet, Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal at the Himalayan Literature Festival 2026.
*Excerpt
from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by the Persian poet,
mathematician and Sufi mystic (1058-1123), from an 1859 translation by Edward
Fitzgerald viewed on a wall plaque in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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