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The Face of Mountains

from Chai: Travel Poems by Marc Nair feat. Neon & Wonder

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The Face of Mountains
(Batad rice terraces)

Old man, tamp your mud and cement
into stone walls and pine for sons
left for the city. Your forefathers carved

a thousand years of crumbling steps.
Now you are a few acres left behind
on the face of this mountain.

Sons come every six months in city shoes
with wailing kids who skin their knees.
The wives prefer the town’s one hotel.

At night, the family listens to music drifting
from the roof-top bar as older men ache
in country and western for their lost village.

Your sons will stop coming here
when you die. Already, they have spoken
of going to Boracay for a change.

Rains wash away more terraces each year,
for the land keeps its own season, and makes
strangers of men who will never call it home.

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from Chai: Travel Poems, released April 20, 2012

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