the mountain speaks

Gilgit-Baltistan (Hunza, Shigar) April 22 - May 2, 2025

"On my riverbed, the firm solace of stones brings
       color to song    words have only color to
       live by      words whose peopling will not

Touch any sky until three more songs are dawned
       by the time the river is sung    i) the song to
       know how each mountain is spoken for    ii)

The song that knows but is silent     iii) the song
       that eyes the sky beseeching rain"  -  the
       beginning of speech at the foot of the hills -