a hereness is five

tomato wedges coated in sugar granules. muslim tea floats sage and chestnuts dried mums quietly. the boy shied a rock or potatoe at my heel. or so i didn't see but felt. enter clockwise random temple you monk sleeping. they hide deep within the temple cornershadows behind mandelas or kettledrums. to make eye and a sometimes smile. i see you in the wall mirror at the steps descending mandela restaurant. rooftop garden low ceiling ascend the stairs.

the light is making sense to me now. how it reveals the thing. how we are balanced under it. bus ride back from sera monastery to realize it is important to relax my face in sunlight with whistle jingle of bells around beyond. all colors drift past and the light flap colors towards eye. monks locals attach two pieces of metal for solar capacity. they use only the sun to heat water. through sera sounds of boiling kettles and tibetans working to raise a wall. details of daily work. he places a large bourlder on stakes of wood a woman pours red dirt mixture into the space where the boulder will go. he cuts and carves the rock to fit. one monk takes a graphite slab and pounds my backside willingly because i move through the temple and decided to go into the room and decided to take my own invitation. he knows to miss the spine. printers sit on calves strattle a long wood block of scripture. they fluidity and utterly rhythmic nothing no thing can interrupt their rhythm not the two 5yuen tourists who paid to take pictures. i remember that man is most beautiful when doing daily work and for pilgrims here it is a primary one.

we you eye are fortunate to know ourselves better in this light. no where else is it pure and unrefined, raw, raw light. the sun is on every part of our body even the forgotten parts like a toe and elbow.

the barkhor once more for a street vendor. she drops her price from 80 to 50 yuen only to give me a bracelet with explanation. bracelet meet the one i bought when we first arrived. we are identical. how so much is bohemian in lhasa.

hullo? hullo? you look. you buy. very cheap.
and to mean it. if you look you do buy.

we grow restless. we have acclimitized. we have walked.

someone takes my photo from behind a curtain.

tomorrow he will buy a painting from tashi i. i will buy a series of flags sewn together.
we will continue to walk through.
should we ask why we are walking?

auspicious/prostrating