Sunday, March 8, 2009

Bob Lucky: COMPANY IN CHIANG MAI, THAILAND

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Having company is a kind of travel. A friend from Japan is visiting. Tonight we plan to go down to the Ping River for the Loi Kratong festival. The river will be jammed with flickering candles adrift in their banana-leaf boats, the sky above lit with thousands of airborne lanterns: prayers and gratitude going up and going downstream. Yesterday we went to a khao soi restaurant I’ve been meaning to check out for months. Afterwards, at the market, we bought an assortment of crickets, grasshoppers and silkworms to nibble on as we strolled home.


tropical twilight…
the chicken griller
fans her coals.


by Bob Lucky
Hangzhou, China
first published in Frogpond 30.2, Summer 2007

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