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Anjuna Market

I wait for Wednesdays, the carnival
of a thousand beach stalls, strung up
like uncountable lanterns on parade.

Silk sarees and sun-print blankets
become the backdrop for coin conjurers,
as the mango-wood drummers
beat down the pelts of their prices.

Two Western girls, half-moon hippies,
slip shiny pieces of Goa up each arm,
snakes encircling their pale skins.

Close by, a thin-voiced woman, trying
to feed seven bare-bottomed children, sells
me sandals a size too small. Sipping lassi
at mid-day, I watch a prey of backpackers

drift towards Tibetans who have spread
bronze bodhisattvas on canvas.
I too carry an amulet for my journey.

The market kaleidoscope turns the colors in us.
We are like those artisans under the palm trees
who chisel elephants within elephants –
infinity from a single block of sandstone.

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from Chai: Travel Poems, released April 20, 2012

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Neon & Wonder is a spoken word band from Singapore.

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